Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 167

Now as the king to whom the wood belonged was hunting in it, his dogs came to the tree, and began to snuff about, and run round and round, and bark.

Who acts: wood, dogs · What happens: belong, hunt, come, begin, snuff, run · To what, where: hollow, tree, bark

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 (wood, dogs), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 hunting	advmod
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 king	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 whom	case
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 king	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 belonged	nsubj
9	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 whom	acl:relcl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hunting	aux
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 came	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hunting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 dogs	nmod:poss
16	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 snuff	mark
25	snuff	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	about	about	ADV	_	25 snuff	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 run	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 run	cc
29	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
30	round	round	ADV	_	29 run	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 round	cc
32	round	round	ADV	_	30 round	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bark	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bark	cc
35	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 run	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	the wood					vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	past · progressive	king's dogs not said here		hollow	now	as the king	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location
3	come	past	king's dogs		the tree			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
4	begin	past	king's dogs not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	snuff	to-infinitive	king's dogs not said here				about property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	run	present	king's dogs not said here	bark			round property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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