Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 6

This grieved him very much, for Lily was his dearest child; and as he was journeying home, thinking what he should bring her, he came to a fine castle; and around the castle was a garden, in one half of which it seemed to be summer-time and in the other half winter.

Who acts: This, Lily, father, it · What happens: grieve, be, journey, think, bring, come · To what, where: father, Lily, fine castle, garden, castle, summer time · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (This, Lily, father, it), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 grieved	nsubj
2	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grieved	obj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	2 grieved	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 child	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	12 child	case
8	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 child	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 child	cop
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 child	nmod:poss
11	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 child	amod
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grieved	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 journeying	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 journeying	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 journeying	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 journeying	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 journeying	aux
18	journeying	journey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grieved	advcl
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 journeying	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thinking	punct
21	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 journeying	advcl
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 bring	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bring	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 bring	aux
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thinking	ccomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bring	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grieved	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 castle	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 castle	det
32	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 castle	amod
33	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 garden	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 garden	cc
36	around	around	ADP	_	38 castle	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 castle	det
38	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 garden	obl
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 garden	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 garden	det
41	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grieved	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 half	punct
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 half	case
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 half	nummod
45	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	41 garden	appos
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 seemed	obl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 seemed	nsubj
49	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 half	acl:relcl
50	to	to	PART	_	54 time	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 time	cop
52	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 time	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 summer	punct
54	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 seemed	xcomp
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 winter	cc
56	in	in	ADP	_	60 winter	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 winter	det
58	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 winter	amod
59	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	60 winter	compound
60	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 time	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grieve	past	This	father				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	is	past	Lily				for father's dearest child	tree rules
3	journey	past · progressive	father				home property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	gerund	father not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	bring	should	father		Lily			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument what=Theme she=Destination
6	come	past	father			a fine castle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
7	is a	past		a garden		the castle		tree rules
8	seem	past	it				of one half	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
9	is a	to-infinitive		summer time and the other half winter				tree rules

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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