Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 99
Already many men had gone into the castle, but as yet none had come out again.
Who acts: many men, none · What happens: go, come out · To what, where: castle
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 (many men, none), 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 yet | case |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 come | obl |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | many men | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come out | past · perfect | none | again | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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