Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 45

He travelled about a long time in search of it and came at last to a dark forest, through which he went on walking for fourteen days and still could not find a way out.

Who acts: man · What happens: travel, come, go, walk, not find, search · To what, where: last, way, search

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 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 travelled	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 search	case
8	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 search	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 forest	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 forest	det
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 forest	amod
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
20	through	through	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 went	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
24	on	on	SCONJ	_	25 walking	mark
25	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 went	advcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 days	case
27	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 days	nummod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 walking	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 find	cc
30	still	still	ADV	_	33 find	advmod
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 find	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 find	advmod
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 walking	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 way	det
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 find	obj
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 way	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	man			time	about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	man not said here		last		to a dark forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
3	go	past	man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location
4	walk	gerund	man not said here			day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not find	could	man not said here	a way		still		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
6	search			search				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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