Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 179
He was old, however, and had a long white beard.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, have · To what, where: long white beard
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 old | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | cop |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 old | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 beard | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beard | amod |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beard | amod |
| 12 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | however, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | man not said here | a long white beard | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |
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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