Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 41
Then he plucked the flower, and set out and travelled day and night, till he came again to the castle.
Who acts: spell · What happens: pluck, set out, travel, come · To what, where: flower, castle
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 plucked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 plucked | nsubj |
| 3 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plucked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 set | cc |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 plucked | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 travelled | cc |
| 11 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 plucked | conj |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 travelled | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 night | cc |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 travelled | conj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | spell | the flower | then | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | |||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | spell not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | past | spell not said here | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | spell | the castle | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location |
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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