Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 4

When they had got on some way they came to four crossways, each leading to a different country.

Who acts: brothers, each · What happens: get, come, lead · To what, where: way, four crossways, different country

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, each), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 crossways	case
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 crossways	nummod
12	crossways	crossway	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leading	punct
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 leading	nsubj
15	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 crossways	acl
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 country	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 country	det
18	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 country	amod
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leading	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · perfect	brothers = brother		some way		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on way=Source
2	come	past	brothers = brother	some way not said here		to four crossways	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
3	lead	gerund	each	four crossways not said here	a different country		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crossway=Theme to country=Destination

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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