Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 36
As he jumped upon the shore he saw before him a beautiful castle but empty and dreary within, for it was enchanted.
Who acts: man · What happens: jump, see, enchant · To what, where: beautiful castle, shore, boat
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 (man), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 jumped | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shore | acl:relcl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 castle | amod |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 empty | cc |
| 15 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 castle | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dreary | cc |
| 17 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 empty | conj |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 23 enchanted | mark |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 enchanted | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 enchanted | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 23 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 jumped | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | man | a beautiful castle | the shore | before Heinel | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shore=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | see | past | man | the shore not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shore=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | enchant | past · passive | boat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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