Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 4
The youth was sent into a strange town, and remained a whole year with the master.
What happens: send, remain · To what, where: youth, strange town
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: 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 | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 town | amod |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 remained | cc |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 year | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 year | amod |
| 14 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 master | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 master | det |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remained | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the youth | a strange town | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | year | with the master | vn exist-47.1 «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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