Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 53
After he had wandered through three kingdoms, he came one evening to a wood, and lay down under a tree to sleep.
Who acts: youth · What happens: wander, come, lay down, sleep · To what, where: three kingdoms, tree
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 wandered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | aux |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 kingdoms | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kingdoms | nummod |
| 7 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wandered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandered | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 evening | nummod |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 evening | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lay | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lay | cc |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 lay | compound:prt |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 sleep | mark |
| 24 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lay | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past · perfect | youth | three kingdoms | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through kingdom=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | youth | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | youth not said here | a tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under tree=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | youth not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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