Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 7
This lasted for many years, when an unknown huntsman announced himself to the king as seeking a situation, and offered to go into the dangerous forest.
Who acts: This, unknown huntsman · What happens: last, announce, seek, offer, go · To what, where: huntsman, king, situation, dangerous forest
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 (This, unknown huntsman), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 lasted | nsubj |
| 2 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lasted | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 announced | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 announced | advmod |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 huntsman | det |
| 9 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 huntsman | amod |
| 10 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 announced | nsubj |
| 11 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lasted | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 announced | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 announced | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 seeking | mark |
| 17 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 announced | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 situation | det |
| 19 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seeking | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 offered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 offered | cc |
| 22 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 lasted | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 offered | xcomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 27 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forest | amod |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | This | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | past | a unknown huntsman | huntsman | the king | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to king=Recipient | |||
| 3 | seek | gerund | a unknown huntsman not said here | a situation | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | offer | participle | This not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | This not said here | the dangerous forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location |
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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