Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 1

Two kings’ sons once upon a time went into the world to seek their fortunes; but they soon fell into a wasteful foolish way of living, so that they could not return home again.

Who acts: sons, wasteful foolish way · What happens: go, seek, fall, live, not return · To what, where: world, fortunes, wasteful foolish way

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, wasteful foolish way), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kings	nummod
2	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sons	nmod:poss
3	’	's	PART	_	2 kings	case
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	nsubj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 went	advmod
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 seek	mark
14	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	advcl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fortunes	nmod:poss
16	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seek	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fell	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 fell	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fell	nsubj
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 fell	advmod
21	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	26 way	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 way	det
24	wasteful	wasteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
25	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fell	obl
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 living	mark
28	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 way	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 return	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 return	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 return	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 return	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 return	advmod
35	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 fell	conj
36	home	home	ADV	_	35 return	advmod
37	again	again	ADV	_	35 return	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Two kings's sons		the world		once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
2	seek	to-infinitive	Two kings's sons not said here	sons's fortunes				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme
3	fall	past	sons = son				into a wasteful foolish way result; soon property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into way=Result
4	live	gerund	a wasteful foolish way not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not return	could	sons = son			again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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