Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 155
So the messengers came home, and had had all their trouble for nothing.
Who acts: messengers · What happens: come, have, trouble · To what, where: trouble
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 (messengers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 messengers | det |
| 3 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | aux |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 came | parataxis |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 trouble | det:predet |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 nothing | case |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 trouble | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the messengers | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past · perfect | messengers's trouble | for nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | ||||
| 3 | trouble | messengers = messenger | for nothing | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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