Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 120
When the day came, the youth galloped to the spot, took his place amongst the knights, and was recognized by no one.
Who acts: day, youth, one · What happens: come, gallop, take, recognize · To what, where: spot, place
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 (day, youth, one), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 galloped | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 galloped | nsubj |
| 8 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 spot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spot | det |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 galloped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 galloped | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 place | nmod:poss |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 16 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 18 knights | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knights | det |
| 18 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 recognized | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 recognized | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 recognized | aux:pass |
| 22 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 took | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 recognized | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | gallop | past | the youth | the spot | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | past | youth's place | amongst the knights | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | recognize | past · passive | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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