Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 23

When the horseman came up, he proved to be a student, a merry fellow, who was journeying along on his nag, and singing as he went.

Who acts: horseman, merry fellow · What happens: come up, prove, be, journey, sing, go · To what, where: student, nag

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horseman, merry fellow), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horseman	det
3	horseman	horseman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 proved	advcl
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 proved	nsubj
8	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	12 student	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 student	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 student	det
12	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proved	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fellow	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fellow	det
15	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fellow	amod
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 student	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 journeying	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 journeying	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 journeying	aux
20	journeying	journey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 fellow	acl
21	along	along	ADV	_	20 journeying	advmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 nag	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 nag	nmod:poss
24	nag	nag	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 journeying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 singing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 singing	cc
27	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 proved	advcl
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 went	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 singing	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the horseman				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prove	past	horseman				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	to-infinitive	horseman not said here	a student			tree rules
4	journey	past · progressive	a merry fellow		horseman's nag	along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on nag=Trajectory
5	sing speech: express	gerund	horseman not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go	past	horseman				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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