Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 68
The giant, thereupon, carried the man to within about a hundred leagues of the castle, where he left him, saying, ‘You will be able to walk the remainder of the way yourself.’
Who acts: castle, You · What happens: carry, leave, say, be, walk · To what, where: man, remainder · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (castle, You), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| 4 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 carried | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 giant | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | fixed |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 14 leagues | case |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 hundred | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hundred | det |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 leagues | nummod |
| 14 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carried | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leagues | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 left | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 castle | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saying | punct |
| 24 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 carried | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 able | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 30 able | mark |
| 27 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 able | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 able | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 able | cop |
| 30 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 saying | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 walk | mark |
| 32 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 able | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 remainder | det |
| 34 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 walk | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 way | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 way | det |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 remainder | nmod |
| 38 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 giant | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the man | within hundred leagues of the castle; thereupon property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | castle | man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | future | You | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | walk | to-infinitive | You not said here | the remainder of the way | yourself obl:unmarked | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme remainder=Trajectory |
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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