Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 16
Then he went his way, and in the evening came to the village where the two inns were; and in one of these were people singing, and dancing, and feasting; but the other looked very dirty, and poor.
Who acts: son, two inns, one, other · What happens: go, come, be, sing, look · To what, where: way, village, dancing
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, two inns, one, other), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 evening | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 were | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 inns | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 inns | nummod |
| 18 | inns | inn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 village | acl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 singing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 one | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 singing | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 these | case |
| 25 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 one | nmod |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 singing | aux |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 singing | nsubj |
| 28 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dancing | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dancing | cc |
| 31 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 singing | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 feasting | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 feasting | cc |
| 34 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 singing | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 looked | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 looked | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 other | det |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 looked | nsubj |
| 39 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 dirty | advmod |
| 41 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 looked | xcomp |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 poor | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 poor | cc |
| 44 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 looked | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | son | son's way | then | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | son not said here | the village | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | be | past | the two inns | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | one of these | dancing | feasting obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | look | past | the other | dirty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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