Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 18

When the time came, the father and son went out together to the place agreed upon: and the son drew a circle on the ground, and set himself and his father in the middle of it.

Who acts: time, father, place, son · What happens: come, go out, agree, draw, set · To what, where: circle, ground, father

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, father, place, son), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 son	cc
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 father	conj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	together	together	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
13	to	to	SCONJ	_	16 agreed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 agreed	nsubj
16	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	advcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 agreed	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 drew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 drew	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 son	det
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drew	nsubj
22	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 circle	det
24	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drew	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drew	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 set	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
30	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 drew	advcl
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 set	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 father	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 himself	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 middle	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 middle	det
37	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 father	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 middle	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go out	past	the father and son			out, together property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	agree speech: agree	past	the place				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	draw	past	the son	a circle	the ground		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent circle=Theme on ground=Destination
5	set	infinitive	the son not said here	father			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient himself=Result

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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