Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 31
So he set out once more on his journey, sighing, and in great despair, when on a sudden his friend the fox met him, and said, ‘You see now what has happened on account of your not listening to my counsel.
Who acts: king, fox, You, your · What happens: set out, sigh, meet, say, see, happen · To what, where: journey, king, great despair, account · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, fox, You, your), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 set | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighing | punct |
| 11 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 set | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 met | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 met | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 despair | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 despair | amod |
| 16 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 met | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 despair | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 met | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 friend | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 friend | det |
| 21 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 friend | amod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friend | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 met | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fox | det |
| 25 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 met | nsubj |
| 26 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 met | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 33 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | ccomp |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 see | advmod |
| 36 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 happened | nsubj |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 happened | aux |
| 38 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 see | ccomp |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 account | case |
| 40 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 happened | obl |
| 41 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 44 listening | mark |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 listening | nsubj |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 listening | advmod |
| 44 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 account | acl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 counsel | case |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 47 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 listening | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | king | king's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sigh | gerund | king not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | the fox | king | great despair | on king's sudden friend | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | see | present | You | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | happen | present · perfect | account | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on account=Location | |||||
| 7 | not listen | gerund | your | account not said here | to my counsel | tree rules | |||
| 8 | journey | king | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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