Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 3
However, they all set out on their journey together, and came at last to an ant-hill.
Who acts: sons · What happens: set out, come, journey · To what, where: journey, last
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), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 hill | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 18 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hill | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ant | punct |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | sons = son | sons's journey | all, however, together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | sons = son not said here | last | to a ant hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | journey | sons = son | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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