Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 77
Then he too turned aside and rode on the left side of it.
Who acts: pity · What happens: turn, ride · To what, where: left side
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 4 turned | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rode | cc |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rode | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 side | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | pity | then | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | ride | past | pity not said here | the left side of road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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