Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 35
The young man sat safe within, till at length it ran ashore upon an unknown land.
Who acts: young man, boat · What happens: sit, run · To what, where: unknown 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 (young man, boat), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sat | xcomp |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 safe | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 13 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 16 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 land | amod |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the young man | safe property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run | past | boat | a unknown land | till length | ashore property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon land=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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