Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 44

He rose up without delay, eager to start on his way and to reach the castle of Stromberg, but he had no idea in which direction he ought to go.

Who acts: man · What happens: rise up, start, reach, have, go · To what, where: way, castle, idea, direction

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 rose	compound:prt
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 delay	case
5	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eager	punct
7	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 delay	amod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 start	mark
9	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 eager	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 start	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 reach	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 reach	mark
15	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 start	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 castle	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reach	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Stromberg	case
19	Stromberg	Stromberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 castle	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 idea	det
25	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 direction	case
27	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	28 direction	det
28	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 idea	nmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 go	nsubj
30	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 go	aux
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 direction	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	man			without delay	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start	to-infinitive	man not said here		man's way		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	reach	to-infinitive	man not said here	the castle of Stromberg			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
4	have	past	man	no idea	which direction		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
5	go	ought	man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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