Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 80
So he journeyed on, thinking of her all the way, and rode so quickly that he did not even see what the road was made of, but went with his horse straight over it; and as he came to the gate it flew open, and the princess welcomed him with joy, and said he was her deliverer, and should now be her husband and lord of the kingdom.
Who acts: forest, road, princess · What happens: journey, think, ride, not see, make, go · To what, where: way, road, gate, forest, deliverer, husband · 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 (forest, road, princess), 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 journeyed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 journeyed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thinking | punct |
| 6 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 journeyed | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thinking | obl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 way | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thinking | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rode | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rode | cc |
| 14 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journeyed | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 quickly | advmod |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 rode | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 see | advmod |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 see | advmod |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rode | advcl |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 road | det |
| 25 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | aux:pass |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 made | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journeyed | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 horse | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 horse | nmod:poss |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 35 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 37 it | advmod |
| 36 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 came | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 came | cc |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 came | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journeyed | parataxis |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 gate | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 gate | det |
| 45 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 came | obl |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 flew | nsubj |
| 47 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 gate | acl:relcl |
| 48 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 flew | xcomp |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 welcomed | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 welcomed | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 princess | det |
| 52 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 welcomed | nsubj |
| 53 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 came | advcl |
| 54 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 welcomed | obj |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 joy | case |
| 56 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 welcomed | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 said | punct |
| 58 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 said | cc |
| 59 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 came | conj |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 deliverer | nsubj |
| 61 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 63 deliverer | cop |
| 62 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 63 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 said | ccomp |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 husband | punct |
| 65 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 70 husband | cc |
| 66 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 70 husband | aux |
| 67 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 70 husband | advmod |
| 68 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 70 husband | cop |
| 69 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 70 husband | nmod:poss |
| 70 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 journeyed | parataxis |
| 71 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 72 lord | cc |
| 72 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 husband | conj |
| 73 | of | of | ADP | _ | 75 kingdom | case |
| 74 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 75 kingdom | det |
| 75 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 lord | nmod |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | forest not said here | all way | of bride | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | ride | past | forest not said here | quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not see | past · do-support | forest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | the road | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 6 | go | past | forest not said here | road | with forest's horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over it=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | come | past | forest | the gate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | fly | past | road | the gate not said here | open property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | |||
| 9 | welcome | past | the princess | forest | with joy | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 10 | say speech: assert | past | forest not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | is a | past | forest | bride's deliverer | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | is a | should | bride's husband and lord of the kingdom | now | tree rules |
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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