Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 100
Then the youth galloped thither with his iron soldiers, broke like a hurricane over the enemy, and beat down all who opposed him.
Who acts: youth · What happens: gallop, break, beat down, oppose · To what, where: enemy, all, youth
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 galloped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 galloped | nsubj |
| 4 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 galloped | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 soldiers | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soldiers | compound |
| 9 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 galloped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 galloped | conj |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 hurricane | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hurricane | det |
| 14 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 enemy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 enemy | det |
| 17 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beat | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beat | cc |
| 20 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 galloped | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 beat | compound:prt |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 beat | obj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 opposed | nsubj |
| 24 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 all | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 opposed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | the youth | then | with youth's iron soldiers; thither property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | past | the youth not said here | the enemy | like a hurricane | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over enemy=Location | |||
| 3 | beat down | infinitive | the youth not said here | all | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme | ||||
| 4 | oppose | past | youth | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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