Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 52

The youth did not know where the Tree of Life stood, but he set out, and would have gone on for ever, as long as his legs would carry him, though he had no hope of finding it.

Who acts: youth, Tree, legs, hope · What happens: not know, stand, set out, go on, carry, have · To what, where: Tree, hope · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, Tree, legs, hope), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 stood	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Tree	det
8	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stood	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Life	case
10	Life	Life	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Tree	nmod
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 set	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	nsubj
15	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 set	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 know	ccomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 gone	compound:prt
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 ever	case
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 gone	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 gone	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 carry	mark
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 legs	nmod:poss
30	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 carry	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 carry	aux
32	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 long	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 carry	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	though	though	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	parataxis
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 hope	det
39	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	of	of	SCONJ	_	41 finding	mark
41	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 hope	acl
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 finding	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the youth			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stand	past	the Tree of Life			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set out	past	Tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go on	would · perfect			long property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	would	Tree's legs	Tree		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	have	past	Tree	no hope		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
7	find	gerund	no hope not said here	hope		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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