Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 36
Thus she went roving on through the wide world, and looked neither to the right hand nor to the left, nor took any rest, for seven years.
Who acts: Lily · What happens: go, rove on, look, take · To what, where: wide world, rest
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lily), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | roving | rove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 roving | compound:prt |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 world | amod |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roving | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hand | amod |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 left | cc |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 left | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 left | det |
| 21 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 rest | det |
| 26 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 years | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 years | case |
| 29 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 years | nummod |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 took | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lily | thus property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | rove on | gerund | Lily not said here | the wide world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Lily not said here | to the right hand nor the left; neither property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Lily not said here | any rest | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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