Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 20
Then the fiddler went his way, and took her with him, and they soon came to a great wood.
Who acts: fiddler, tears · What happens: go, take, come · To what, where: way, parson, great wood
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiddler, tears), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fiddler | det |
| 3 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | 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 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 came | advmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wood | amod |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the fiddler | fiddler's way | then | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | parson | with fiddler | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come | past | tears = tear | a great wood | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location |
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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