Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 62
Then the king’s son left the forest, and walked by beaten and unbeaten paths ever onwards until at length he reached a great city.
Who acts: son · What happens: leave, walk, beat, reach · To what, where: forest, beaten paths, great city, length
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 (son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 left | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 beaten | case |
| 13 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 paths | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 unbeaten | cc |
| 15 | unbeaten | unbeaten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beaten | conj |
| 16 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 walked | obj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 onwards | advmod |
| 18 | onwards | onwards | ADV | _ | 11 walked | advmod |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 reached | mark |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 length | case |
| 21 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reached | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reached | nsubj |
| 23 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 city | amod |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reached | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the king's son | the forest | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | past | the king's son not said here | beaten paths | onwards property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme path=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | reach | past | son | a great city | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent city=Theme at length=Asset |
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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