Grimms' Fairy Tales, Preparer’s Note, sentence 4

HOW THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO EAT NUTS 2.

Who acts: DOG · What happens: go, eat · To what, where: MOUNTAINS, NUTS

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Preparer’s Note. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (DOG), 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	HOW	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 WENT	advmod
2	THEY	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 WENT	nsubj
3	WENT	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	TO	to	ADP	_	6 MOUNTAINS	case
5	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 MOUNTAINS	det
6	MOUNTAINS	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 WENT	obl
7	TO	to	PART	_	8 EAT	mark
8	EAT	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 WENT	advcl
9	NUTS	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 EAT	obj
10	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 NUTS	flat
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 WENT	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	DOG			the MOUNTAINS			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
2	eat	to-infinitive	DOG not said here	NUTS					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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