Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 89
Then they turned upon him and tried to seize him; but he drew his sword.
Who acts: peers, Heinel · What happens: turn, try, seize, draw · To what, where: Heinel, sword
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 (peers, Heinel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tried | cc |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 seize | mark |
| 9 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seize | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sword | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | peers = peer | then | upon Heinel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | try | past | peers = peer not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | seize not said to happen | to-infinitive | peers = peer not said here | Heinel | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | Heinel | Heinel's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
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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