Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 37

And now he had to use his own legs, and when he had walked a long way, he came to a large city.

Who acts: turn · What happens: have, use, walk, come · To what, where: own legs, long way, large city

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 (turn), 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	_	4 had	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 use	mark
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 legs	amod
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 walked	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 walked	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 walked	aux
15	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 came	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 city	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 city	det
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 city	amod
25	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	turn			now	tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive	turn not said here	turn's own legs			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
3	walk	past · perfect	turn	a long way			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	turn		a large city		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location

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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