Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 14
In his trouble and fear he went down into the courtyard and took thought how to help himself out of his trouble.
Who acts: king · What happens: go down, take, think, help, trouble · To what, where: king, trouble
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 trouble | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 3 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fear | cc |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trouble | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 courtyard | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 courtyard | det |
| 11 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 took | cc |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 help | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | xcomp |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 trouble | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 trouble | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 22 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 help | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | king | into the courtyard; in king's trouble and fear; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in trouble=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | past | king not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | king not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | king not said here | king | king's trouble | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | trouble | king | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | trouble | king | nom trouble «cognition 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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