Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 41
And he went with them and made them form a great circle, open at one end where he stationed himself, and began to wish.
Who acts: huntsman, quarters · What happens: go, make, form, open, station, begin · To what, where: quarters, great circle, one end, huntsman
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, quarters), 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 | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 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 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 circle | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 circle | amod |
| 12 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 form | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 open | punct |
| 14 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 form | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 end | nummod |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 stationed | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stationed | nsubj |
| 20 | stationed | station | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 end | acl:relcl |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 stationed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 wish | mark |
| 26 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | huntsman | with quarters = quarter | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | make | past | huntsman not said here | quarters = quarter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | infinitive | quarters = quarter not said here | a great circle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location circle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | infinitive | at one end | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | |||||
| 5 | station | past | huntsman | huntsman | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 6 | begin | past | huntsman not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | wish | to-infinitive | huntsman not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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