Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 30
The path led him into a wood, and there he saw two old ravens standing by their nest, and throwing out their young ones.
Who acts: path, king, two old ravens · What happens: lead, see, stand, throw out · To what, where: king, wood, two old ravens, young ones
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 (path, king, two old ravens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 path | det |
| 2 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 saw | expl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | parataxis |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 ravens | nummod |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ravens | amod |
| 15 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 ravens | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 nest | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 nest | nmod:poss |
| 19 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 throwing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 throwing | cc |
| 22 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 throwing | compound:prt |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ones | nmod:poss |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ones | amod |
| 26 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 throwing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the path | king | a wood | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into wood=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | king | two old ravens | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stand | gerund | two old ravens not said here | by ravens's nest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by nest=Location | ||||
| 4 | throw out | gerund | king not said here | ravens's young ones | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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