Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 37

He could not go back to his own home, so he went to a strange village, and employed himself in keeping sheep.

Who acts: spell · What happens: not go back, go, employ, keep · To what, where: strange village, spell, sheep

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 (spell), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 home	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 home	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 home	amod
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 village	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 village	det
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 village	amod
17	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 employed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 employed	cc
20	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 employed	obj
22	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 keeping	mark
23	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 employed	advcl
24	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keeping	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go back	could	spell			to spell's own home result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
2	go	past	spell		a strange village		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location
3	employ	past	spell not said here	spell			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	keep	gerund	spell not said here	sheep			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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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