Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 101

They began to flee, but the youth pursued, and never stopped, until there was not a single man left.

Who acts: soldiers, youth · What happens: begin, flee, pursue, not stop, not be, leave · To what, where: single man

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 (soldiers, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 flee	mark
4	flee	flee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pursued	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 pursued	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pursued	nsubj
9	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stopped	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 stopped	advmod
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 was	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 man	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 man	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stopped	ccomp
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 man	acl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	soldiers = soldier		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	flee	to-infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pursue	past	the youth		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	not stop	past			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	not is a	past		a single man	tree rules
6	leave	participle		a single man not said here	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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