Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 55
He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it.
Who acts: son, singing · What happens: ride, have, touch, go out, listen · To what, where: heart, forest, singing
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 (son, singing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 singing | det |
| 7 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 touched | advmod |
| 10 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 11 touched | advmod |
| 11 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touched | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 day | det |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 listened | cc |
| 25 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 listened | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | son | home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the singing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | touch | past | the singing not said here | son's heart | deeply property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | go out | past | son | the forest | day | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 5 | listen | past | son not said here | singing | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/18/55/