Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 58
Then the huntsman washed his face and went into the court that they might know him.
Who acts: huntsman, leaves · What happens: wash, go, know · To what, where: face, court, huntsman
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 (huntsman, leaves), 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 | 4 washed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 huntsman | det |
| 3 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 washed | nsubj |
| 4 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 washed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 washed | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past | the huntsman | huntsman's face | then | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | the huntsman not said here | the court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | know | might | leaves = leaf | huntsman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: 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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