Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 47

And thus eight years had passed over their heads, when the king thought of his father; and he began to long to see him once again.

Who acts: king · What happens: pass, think, begin, see · To what, where: eight years, heads, king

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 (king), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 passed	cc
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 eight	advmod
3	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	aux
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 heads	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 thought	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heads	acl:relcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 see	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	obj
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 see	advmod
28	again	again	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		eight years	Joy's heads			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over head=Destination
2	think speech: other	past	the king				of king's father	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	king					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	see	to-infinitive	king not said here	king		again	long, once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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