Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 32
The king sent out people to seek for him in the fields, but they did not find him.
Who acts: king, people · What happens: send out, seek, not find · To what, where: people, fields, king
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, people), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 sent | compound:prt |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seek | mark |
| 7 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seek | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fields | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fields | det |
| 12 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seek | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 find | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 find | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 find | advmod |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 find | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | participle | the king | people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the fields | for king | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme in field=Location | |||
| 3 | not find | past · do-support | people | king | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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