Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 123
Again he was the only one who caught the apple, and he did not linger an instant, but galloped off with it.
Who acts: knight, only one · What happens: be, catch, not linger, gallop off · To what, where: only one, apple, instant
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 (knight, only 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 apple | det |
| 10 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 linger | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 linger | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 linger | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 linger | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 linger | advmod |
| 16 | linger | linger | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 caught | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 instant | det |
| 18 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 linger | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 galloped | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 galloped | cc |
| 21 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 galloped | compound:prt |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 galloped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | knight | the only one | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch | past | the only one | the apple | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not linger | past · do-support | knight | a instant | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gallop off | past | the only one not said here | with apple | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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