Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 51
However, after a while he summoned up courage and went forward.
Who acts: man · What happens: summon up, go · To what, where: courage
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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 while | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 summoned | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 summoned | nsubj |
| 7 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 summoned | compound:prt |
| 9 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 summoned | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 summoned | conj |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon up | past | man | courage | while | however property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient | ||
| 2 | go | past | man not said here | forward property | 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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