Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 186

The guards that stood at the castle gate were called in: but they had seen no one.

Who acts: guards · What happens: stand, call in, see · To what, where: castle gate, guards, one

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 (guards), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guards	det
2	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 called	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 guards	acl:relcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gate	compound
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 called	compound:prt
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 seen	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 called	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	the guards		the castle gate	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location
2	call in speech: assert	past · passive		the guards		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	see	past · perfect	guards = guard	no one		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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