Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 35
So the good young fellow alighted and killed his horse with his sword, and gave it to them for food.
Who acts: good young fellow · What happens: alight, kill, give · To what, where: good young fellow, horse, sword
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 (good young fellow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 killed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 6 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fellow | acl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 alighted | cc |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sword | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sword | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 killed | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alight | participle | the good young fellow not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill | past | the good young fellow | fellow's horse | with fellow's sword | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with sword=Instrument | |||
| 3 | give | past | the good young fellow not said here | sword | horse | for food | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient for food=Asset |
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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