Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 44
So he went away to try and find the castle of his friends; and after wandering about a few days he luckily found it.
Who acts: cloud · What happens: go away, try, find, wonder · To what, where: castle
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloud), 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 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 try | mark |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 find | cc |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 castle | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 wandering | mark |
| 17 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 found | advcl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 days | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 days | amod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wandering | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 23 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 24 found | advmod |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | cloud | away property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | cloud not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | cloud not said here | the castle of cloud's friends | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | cloud not said here | day | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | find | past | cloud | castle | luckily property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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