Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 51
After a year or two, it came to pass that the king’s son rode through the forest and passed by the tower.
Who acts: hair, son · What happens: come, pass, ride · To what, where: forest
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, son), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 two | cc |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 year | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pass | mark |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 rode | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rode | nsubj |
| 16 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pass | advcl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 forest | det |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rode | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 rode | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 tower | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tower | det |
| 24 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hair | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | hair not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | the king's son | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | pass | participle | the king's son not said here | by the tower | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tower=Location |
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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