Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 54
Then the fisherman went home; and as he came close to the palace he saw a troop of soldiers, and heard the sound of drums and trumpets.
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: go, come, see, hear · To what, where: troop, sound
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fisherman | det |
| 3 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | advcl |
| 11 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 close | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 troop | det |
| 18 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 soldiers | case |
| 20 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 troop | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 heard | cc |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saw | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sound | det |
| 25 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 drums | case |
| 27 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sound | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 trumpets | cc |
| 29 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 drums | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the fisherman | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | fisherman | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | fisherman | a troop of soldiers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer troop=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | fisherman not said here | the sound of drums and trumpets | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
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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