Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 49
All night long they walked, and it was morning before they reached the mill.
Who acts: sleepers, path · What happens: walk, be, reach · To what, where: morning, mill
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleepers, path), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 walked | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 morning | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 morning | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 morning | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 morning | cop |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mill | det |
| 15 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | sleepers = sleeper | night | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | path | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | sleepers = sleeper | the mill | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mill=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.
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