Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 44
Then away they hastened with her full of joy in their boat towards the ship; but soon came the dragon roaring behind them through the air; for he awoke and missed the princess.
Who acts: brothers, dragon, beast · What happens: hasten, come, roar, awake, miss · To what, where: boat, dragon, air, princess
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, dragon, beast), 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 | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 hastened | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hastened | nsubj |
| 4 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 full | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 full | nmod:poss |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hastened | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 joy | case |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 boat | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 boat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hastened | obl |
| 13 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boat | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 came | advmod |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hastened | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dragon | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obj |
| 22 | roaring | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 dragon | acl |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 roaring | obl |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 roaring | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 awoke | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 awoke | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 awoke | nsubj |
| 31 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hastened | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 missed | cc |
| 33 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 awoke | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 princess | det |
| 35 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 missed | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past | brothers = brother | brothers's boat towards the ship | away, full property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boat=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | brothers = brother not said here | the dragon | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dragon=Theme | |||
| 3 | roar | gerund | the dragon not said here | the air | behind brothers = brother | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location | |||
| 4 | awake | past | beast | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | miss | past | beast not said here | the princess | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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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