Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 85

When he reached the gate of the castle, he found it closed, but he gave it a blow with his stick, and it flew wide open at once and he passed through.

Who acts: thing, gate · What happens: reach, find, close, give, fly, pass through · To what, where: gate · 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 (thing, gate), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 castle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gate	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 closed	nsubj
13	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 found	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 blow	det
20	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 stick	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 stick	nmod:poss
23	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blow	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flew	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flew	nsubj
27	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	parataxis
28	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 open	advmod
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 flew	xcomp
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 flew	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 passed	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 passed	nsubj
34	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 flew	conj
35	through	through	ADV	_	34 passed	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	thing	the gate of the castle		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme
2	find	past	thing			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	close	participle	gate			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	give	past	thing	gate		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient blow=Theme
5	fly	past	gate		open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
6	pass through	past	thing		through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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