Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 3
Then the soldier did not know how to earn a living, went away greatly troubled, and walked the whole day, until in the evening he entered a forest.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: not know, earn, go away, walk, enter · To what, where: living, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | 6 know | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 earn | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 earn | mark |
| 9 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 living | det |
| 11 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 earn | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 16 troubled | advmod |
| 16 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 went | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walked | cc |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 entered | punct |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 entered | mark |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 evening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 evening | det |
| 27 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 entered | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 entered | nsubj |
| 29 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 walked | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 forest | det |
| 31 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 entered | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the soldier | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | earn | to-infinitive | a living | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go away | past | away, troubled property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | soldier | a forest | evening | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=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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