Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 17
The youth wandered on, and after some time came to a fortress where he begged for a night’s lodging.
Who acts: youth · What happens: wander, come, beg · To what, where: fortress
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 wandered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wandered | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 fortress | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fortress | det |
| 13 | fortress | fortress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 begged | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 begged | nsubj |
| 16 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fortress | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 lodging | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 night | case |
| 21 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 begged | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | the youth | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the youth not said here | a fortress | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fortress=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | youth | for a night's lodging | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for lodging=Topic |
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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