Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 70
He found it situated, however, on a glass mountain, and looking up from the foot he saw the enchanted maiden drive round her castle and then go inside.
Who acts: castle, remainder · What happens: find, situate, look up, see, enchant, go · To what, where: remainder, glass mountain, enchanted maiden drive
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, remainder), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 found | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 situated | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mountain | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 10 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mountain | compound |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 situated | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 saw | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 looking | compound:prt |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 foot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 foot | det |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 drive | det |
| 22 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 drive | amod |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 drive | amod |
| 24 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 25 | round | round | ADP | _ | 27 castle | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 castle | nmod:poss |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drive | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 go | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 go | advmod |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 saw | conj |
| 31 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 30 go | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | castle | remainder | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | situate | participle | remainder not said here | a glass mountain | however property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on mountain=Destination | |||
| 3 | look up | gerund | castle not said here | from the foot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | castle | the enchanted maiden drive | round Stromberg's castle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drive=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | castle not said here | then | inside 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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