Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 3
Thus from being a rich man he became all at once so very poor that nothing was left to him but one small plot of land; and there he often went in an evening to take his walk, and ease his mind of a little of his trouble.
Who acts: news · What happens: be, become, leave, go, take, ease · To what, where: nothing, news, walk, mind, land
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 (news), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 became | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 once | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 became | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 poor | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 poor | advmod |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 became | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 left | mark |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 left | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux:pass |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 poor | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | obl |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 plot | cc |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 plot | nummod |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 plot | amod |
| 24 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plot | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 there | cc |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 went | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 31 | often | often | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 evening | case |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 evening | det |
| 35 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 take | mark |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 went | advcl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 walk | nmod:poss |
| 39 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 take | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ease | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 ease | cc |
| 42 | ease | ease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 became | conj |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 mind | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ease | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 little | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 little | det |
| 47 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 mind | nmod |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 trouble | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 50 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 little | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | from a rich man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | become | past | news | once, poor, thus property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | nothing | news | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | news | there | evening | often property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | news not said here | news's walk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ease | infinitive | news not said here | news's mind of a little of news's trouble | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 7 | plot | land | nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | walk | news | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | mind | news | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | trouble | news | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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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