Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 11

They had wandered a long way; and when they looked to see which way they should go home, they found themselves at a loss to know what path to take.

Who acts: doves · What happens: wander, look, see, go, find, know · To what, where: long way, way, doves, loss · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doves), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wandered	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	aux
3	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wandered	obl:unmarked
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 looked	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 found	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 looked	xcomp
14	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 way	acl:relcl
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wandered	parataxis
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 found	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 loss	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 loss	det
26	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 know	mark
28	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 found	ccomp
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 path	nsubj
30	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 know	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 take	mark
32	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 path	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past · perfect	doves = dove	a long way			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	doves = dove				tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	doves = dove not said here	which way			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
4	go	should	doves = dove	which way not said here		home property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
5	find	past	doves = dove	doves = dove	a loss		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme
6	know	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	path						tree rules
8	take	to-infinitive					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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