Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 53
So he went up to a neighbouring hill, where a shepherd dwelt, and borrowed his old frock, and thus passed unknown into the town.
Who acts: Heinel, shepherd · What happens: go up, dwell, borrow, pass · To what, where: old frock, town
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, shepherd), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 7 | neighbouring | neighbouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hill | compound |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dwelt | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 dwelt | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shepherd | det |
| 12 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dwelt | nsubj |
| 13 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hill | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 borrowed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 borrowed | cc |
| 16 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 frock | nmod:poss |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 frock | amod |
| 19 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 borrowed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 passed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 passed | cc |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 23 passed | advmod |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 borrowed | conj |
| 24 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 passed | xcomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 town | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | Heinel | to a neighbouring hill | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | a shepherd | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | borrow | past | Heinel's old frock | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frock=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pass | participle | the town | thus, unknown property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location |
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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