Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 23
So he set out, and the dwarf met him too at the same spot in the valley, among the mountains, and said, ‘Prince, whither so fast?’
Who acts: prince, dwarf · What happens: set out, meet, say · To what, where: prince, same spot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince, dwarf), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 met | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 met | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dwarf | det |
| 8 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 met | obj |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 met | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spot | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spot | amod |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 valley | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 valley | det |
| 18 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spot | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mountains | punct |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 mountains | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mountains | det |
| 22 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 met | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Prince | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Prince | punct |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fast | punct |
| 30 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 fast | advmod |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 fast | advmod |
| 32 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 said | advmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | the dwarf | prince | the same spot in the valley | among the mountains | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | fast property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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