Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 16
Our honest friend journeyed on his way too; and if he was merry before, he was now ten times more so.
Who acts: honest friend, friend · What happens: journey, be · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honest friend, friend), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 journeyed | nsubj |
| 4 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 journeyed | obl |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 journeyed | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 more | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 more | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 before | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 before | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 before | cop |
| 14 | merry | merry | ADV | _ | 15 before | advmod |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 more | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 more | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 more | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 more | cop |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 more | advmod |
| 20 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 times | nummod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 more | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 journeyed | conj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 more | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | Our honest friend | friend's way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | friend | before, merry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | friend | now; time | more property | tree rules |
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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