Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 188
Then he led him by dark passages to a smith’s forge, took an axe, and with one blow struck an anvil into the ground.
Who acts: man, one blow · What happens: lead, take, strike · To what, where: youth, axe, anvil, ground
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, one blow), 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 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 passages | case |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 passages | amod |
| 7 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 forge | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 smith | det |
| 10 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 smith | case |
| 12 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 axe | det |
| 16 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 struck | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 struck | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 blow | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 blow | nummod |
| 21 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | nsubj |
| 22 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 anvil | det |
| 24 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 ground | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ground | det |
| 27 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | man | youth | then | by dark passages; to a smith's forge | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme by passage=Destination | ||
| 2 | take | past | man not said here | a axe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | one blow | a anvil | into the ground result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent anvil=Patient into ground=Result |
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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