Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 38
So he once more searched the whole palace through, till at last he found a white snake, lying coiled up on a cushion in one of the chambers.
Who acts: man · What happens: search, find, coil up · To what, where: whole palace, white snake, cushion
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 searched | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 searched | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 searched | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 searched | advmod |
| 5 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palace | amod |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 searched | obj |
| 9 | through | through | ADV | _ | 5 searched | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 searched | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 snake | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 snake | amod |
| 18 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 coiled | punct |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 coiled | aux:pass |
| 21 | coiled | coil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 found | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 coiled | compound:prt |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 cushion | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cushion | det |
| 25 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coiled | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 coiled | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 chambers | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 chambers | det |
| 30 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | man | the whole palace | once, through property | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent palace=Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | man | a white snake | till last | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic | |||
| 3 | coil up | gerund · passive | man not said here | a cushion | in one of the chambers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: on cushion=Source in one=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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