Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 5

So he rode away, and when he reached his father, the latter was dangerously ill, and near his death.

Who acts: son, latter · What happens: ride away, reach, be, die · To what, where: death, father

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 (son, latter), 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 rode	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rode	nsubj
3	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 rode	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reached	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 reached	cc
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rode	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ill	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 latter	det
14	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ill	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ill	cop
16	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	_	17 ill	advmod
17	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 death	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 death	cc
20	near	near	ADP	_	22 death	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 death	nmod:poss
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rode	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride away	past	son		son's death	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past	son	son's father			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent father=Theme
3	is	past	the latter	son's father not said here		dangerously, ill property	tree rules
4	die		son				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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