Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 52
Heinel found himself at the gates in a moment; but the guards would not let him go in, because he was so strangely clad.
Who acts: Heinel, guards · What happens: find, not let, go in, be · To what, where: Heinel, gates · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Heinel, guards), 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 | Heinel | Heinel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 found | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 gates | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gates | det |
| 6 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 found | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gates | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guards | det |
| 13 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 let | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 let | advmod |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | ccomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clad | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 clad | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 clad | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 clad | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 clad | advmod |
| 25 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 26 clad | advmod |
| 26 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 let | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Heinel | Heinel | the gates in a moment | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | not let | would | the guards | Heinel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in | infinitive | Heinel not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Heinel | clad, strangely property | tree rules |
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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