Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 127

But when he was riding off with it, the king’s attendants pursued him, and one of them got so near him that he wounded the youth’s leg with the point of his sword.

Who acts: king, attendants, one · What happens: ride off, pursue, get, wound, point · To what, where: king, leg, sword

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 (king, attendants, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 pursued	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 riding	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 riding	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 riding	aux
5	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 pursued	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 riding	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 riding	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 riding	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 attendants	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pursued	nsubj
14	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pursued	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 got	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 got	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pursued	conj
22	so	so	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
23	near	near	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 got	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 wounded	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wounded	nsubj
27	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 got	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 youth	det
29	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 leg	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 youth	case
31	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wounded	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 point	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 point	det
34	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wounded	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 sword	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sword	nmod:poss
37	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 point	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pursued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ride off	past · progressive	king		with apple	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	pursue	past	the king's attendants	king		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	get	past	one of attendants		near king	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	wound	past	king	the youth's leg	with the point of king's sword	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus leg=Experiencer
5	point			king's sword		nom point «cognition transitive»: of=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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