Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 17
The eldest brother set out, and sought for the pearls the whole day: but the evening came, and he had not found the first hundred: so he was turned into stone as the tablet had foretold.
Who acts: eldest brother, evening, man · What happens: set out, seek, come, not find, turn, foretell · To what, where: eldest brother, first hundred, man, stone, tablet
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 (eldest brother, evening, man), 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 | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sought | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brother | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sought | cc |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 pearls | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pearls | det |
| 11 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sought | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sought | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 evening | det |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sought | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 found | advmod |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 came | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hundred | det |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 hundred | amod |
| 28 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 found | obj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 turned | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | aux:pass |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sought | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 stone | case |
| 35 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obl |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 foretold | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tablet | det |
| 38 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 foretold | aux |
| 40 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 turned | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the eldest brother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seek | past | the eldest brother | day | for the pearls | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for pearl=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | the evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not find | past · perfect | man | the first hundred | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Topic | ||||
| 5 | turn | past · passive | man | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | foretell | past · perfect · passive | the tablet | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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