Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 78
And at last he did so, and in a moment the fox was changed into a man, and turned out to be the brother of the princess, who had been lost a great many many years.
Who acts: horse · What happens: do, change, turn out, be, lose · To what, where: last, fox, brother, princess
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 (horse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 did | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 did | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 changed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 changed | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fox | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 changed | aux:pass |
| 15 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 did | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turned | cc |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 turned | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 brother | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 brother | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 brother | det |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 princess | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 princess | det |
| 29 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brother | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lost | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 lost | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lost | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 lost | aux:pass |
| 34 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 princess | acl:relcl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 years | det |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 years | amod |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 years | amod |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 years | amod |
| 39 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 lost | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | horse | last | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | change | past · passive | the fox | moment | into a man result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into man=Result | |||
| 3 | turn out | past | horse not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | horse not said here | the brother | of the princess | tree rules | |||
| 5 | lose | past · perfect · passive | the princess | year | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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