Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 84
Many, he added, had already ventured into this castle, but no one had ever come out again.
Who acts: King, one · What happens: add, venture, come out · To what, where: Many, castle
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 added | obj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Many | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 added | nsubj |
| 4 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ventured | punct |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ventured | aux |
| 7 | already | already | ADV | _ | 8 ventured | advmod |
| 8 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 added | parataxis |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ventured | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 come | advmod |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ventured | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | King | Many | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | ||||
| 2 | venture | past · perfect | this castle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come out | past | no one | ever; again | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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