Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 41
Now it came to pass that once when they were out hunting, news came that the king’s bride was approaching.
Who acts: liking, huntsmen, news, bride · What happens: come, pass, hunt, approach
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (liking, huntsmen, news, bride), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 once | mark |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 pass | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 hunting | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hunting | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunting | aux |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 were | compound:prt |
| 12 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 pass | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 approaching | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bride | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 approaching | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 approaching | aux |
| 22 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 came | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | liking | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | liking not said here | once property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hunt | past · progressive | huntsmen = huntsman | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | news | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | approach | past · progressive | the king's bride | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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