Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 69
The man journeyed on day and night till he reached the golden castle of Stromberg.
Who acts: man · What happens: journey, reach · To what, where: golden castle
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 journeyed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 night | cc |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | conj |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journeyed | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 castle | amod |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Stromberg | case |
| 15 | Stromberg | Stromberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 castle | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | the man | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | man | the golden castle of Stromberg | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=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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