Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 27
So they walked off together towards the spot where Chanticleer had seen the light, and as they drew near it became larger and brighter, till they at last came close to a house in which a gang of robbers lived.
Who acts: bone, Chanticleer, light, last, gang · What happens: walk off, see, draw, become, come, live · To what, where: light, house
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 (bone, Chanticleer, light, last), 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 walked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 seen | advmod |
| 10 | Chanticleer | Chanticleer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 spot | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drew | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 drew | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drew | nsubj |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | parataxis |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 became | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 became | nsubj |
| 22 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drew | conj |
| 23 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 became | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brighter | cc |
| 25 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 larger | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 last | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 last | nsubj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 became | conj |
| 32 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 came | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 house | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 house | det |
| 35 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 lived | obl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 gang | det |
| 39 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lived | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 robbers | case |
| 41 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 gang | nmod |
| 42 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 house | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | past | bone | towards the spot; off, together property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Chanticleer | the light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | bone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | become | past | light | large property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | past | last | a house | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | live | past | a gang of robbers | a house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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