Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 61
I have been to the sun, the moon, and the night-wind, to seek thee, and at last I have helped thee to overcome the dragon.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, seek, help, overcome · To what, where: thee, last, dragon
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sun | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sun | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sun | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 moon | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 moon | det |
| 9 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wind | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wind | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wind | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 night | punct |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seek | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seek | mark |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wind | conj |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 seek | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 helped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 helped | cc |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 last | case |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 helped | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 helped | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 helped | aux |
| 26 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 seek | parataxis |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 helped | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 overcome | mark |
| 29 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 helped | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dragon | det |
| 31 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 overcome | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | I | to the sun and the moon and the night wind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | present · perfect | I | thee | last | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | overcome | to-infinitive | I not said here | the dragon | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dragon=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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