Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 76

The second prince set out soon afterwards on the same errand; and when he came to the golden road, and his horse had set one foot upon it, he stopped to look at it, and thought it very beautiful, and said to himself, ‘What a pity it is that anything should tread here!’

Who acts: prince, second prince, road, pity · What happens: set out, come, set, stop, look, think · To what, where: second prince, same errand, golden road, horse, road, prince · 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, second prince, road, pity), 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	3 prince	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 prince	amod
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stopped	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 prince	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 afterwards	advmod
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 errand	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 errand	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 errand	amod
11	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 stopped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stopped	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stopped	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 road	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 road	det
19	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 set	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 horse	nmod:poss
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 set	aux
26	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 came	conj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 foot	nummod
28	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stopped	nsubj
33	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	to	to	PART	_	35 look	mark
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stopped	xcomp
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 look	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thought	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thought	cc
40	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stopped	conj
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 thought	obj
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 beautiful	advmod
43	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 thought	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 said	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 said	cc
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stopped	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 himself	case
48	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 said	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 What	punct
50	‘	'	PUNCT	_	51 What	punct
51	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 said	ccomp
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 pity	det
53	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 tread	nsubj
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 is	nsubj
55	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 pity	acl:relcl
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 tread	mark
57	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	59 tread	nsubj
58	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 tread	aux
59	tread	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 What	acl:relcl
60	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 tread	advmod
61	!	!	PUNCT	_	51 What	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	51 What	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	participle		the second prince not said here		the same errand	afterwards property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	prince			the golden road		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial_Location
3	set	past · perfect · passive		prince's horse			upon road	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme foot=Destination
4	stop	past	the second prince					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	look	to-infinitive	the second prince not said here				at road	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	the second prince not said here	road			beautiful property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	the second prince not said here		prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
8	be	present	road	a pity not said here				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot pity=Theme
9	tread	should	a pity			here		vn run-51.3.2 «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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