Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 19

The little black dwarf soon came, and walked round and round about the circle, but could not find any way to get into it, and he either could not, or dared not, jump over it.

Who acts: little black dwarf · What happens: come, walk, not find, get, not dare, not jump · To what, where: way, circle

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 (little black dwarf), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dwarf	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dwarf	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dwarf	amod
4	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walked	cc
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 walked	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 round	cc
12	round	round	ADV	_	10 round	conj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 circle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 circle	det
15	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 find	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 find	cc
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 find	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 find	advmod
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 find	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 way	acl
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 could	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 could	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
30	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 could	advmod
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 came	advcl
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 could	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dared	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 dared	cc
35	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 dared	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 jump	punct
38	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 dared	xcomp
39	over	over	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 jump	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the little black dwarf			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	past	the little black dwarf not said here			about the circle; round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about circle=Trajectory
3	not find	could	the little black dwarf not said here	any way			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	get	to-infinitive	the little black dwarf not said here	any way not said here	circle		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
5	not dare	past	the little black dwarf not said here				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not jump	infinitive	the little black dwarf not said here		circle		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory

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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