Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 41
All the people grieved for the handsome youth; then they went away, leaving him alone by the sea.
Who acts: people · What happens: grieve, go away, leave · To what, where: youth
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 (people), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grieved | nsubj |
| 4 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 youth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 youth | amod |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grieved | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grieved | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaving | punct |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leaving | obj |
| 17 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 leaving | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past | all people | for the handsome youth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go away | past | people | then | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | people not said here | youth | by the sea; alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by sea=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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