Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 14

He next tried to get off his horse and make his way on foot, but again the laugh rang in his ears, and he found himself unable to move a step, and thus he was forced to abide spellbound.

Who acts: path, laugh · What happens: try, get off, make, ring, find, move · To what, where: horse, way, foot, ears, path, step

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (path, laugh), 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	3 tried	nsubj
2	next	next	ADV	_	3 tried	advmod
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 foot	case
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rang	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 rang	cc
17	again	again	ADV	_	20 rang	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 laugh	det
19	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rang	nsubj
20	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ears	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ears	nmod:poss
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rang	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	parataxis
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 found	obj
29	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 found	xcomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 move	mark
31	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 unable	xcomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 step	det
33	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 move	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 forced	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 forced	cc
36	thus	thus	ADV	_	39 forced	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 forced	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 forced	aux:pass
39	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 found	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 abide	mark
41	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 forced	xcomp
42	spellbound	spellbind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 abide	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	path				next property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get off not said to happen	to-infinitive	path not said here	path's horse				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
3	make	infinitive	path not said here	path's way	foot			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
4	ring	past	the laugh		path's ears	again		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
5	find	past	laugh	path			unable property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
6	move	to-infinitive	path not said here	a step				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent step=Theme
7	force	past · passive		laugh			thus property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
8	abide	to-infinitive	laugh not said here					tree rules
9	spellbind	participle	laugh not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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