Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 89

The youth went with the waggoner, and in the evening they arrived at an inn where they wished to pass the night.

Who acts: youth, rags · What happens: go, arrive, wish, pass · To what, where: inn

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 (youth, rags), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 waggoner	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waggoner	det
6	waggoner	waggoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arrived	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 arrived	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 evening	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 arrived	nsubj
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 inn	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 inn	det
16	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 wished	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wished	nsubj
19	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 inn	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pass	mark
21	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wished	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 night	det
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pass	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youth			with the waggoner	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with waggoner=Beneficiary
2	arrive	past	rags = rag	a inn	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wish	past	rags = rag				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	pass not said to happen	to-infinitive	rags = rag not said here		night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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