Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 22
They could not, however, reach the great city the first day; so when night came on, they went into a wood to sleep.
Who acts: guests, night · What happens: not reach, come on, go, sleep · To what, where: great city, wood
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guests, night), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reach | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reach | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 reach | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 not | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 reach | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 city | amod |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reach | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sleep | mark |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach | could | guests = guest | the great city | day | however property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||
| 2 | come on | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | guests = guest | a wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | guests = guest not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP 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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