Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 93
When they had gone forth, he went into the stable, and led the horse out; it was lame of one foot, and limped hobblety jib, hobblety jib; nevertheless he mounted it, and rode away to the dark forest.
Who acts: others, horse, stable · What happens: go, lead out, be, limp, mount, ride away · To what, where: stable, horse, lame, hobblety jib, dark 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 (others, horse, stable), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 stable | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stable | det |
| 11 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 led | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 led | cc |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 led | compound:prt |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lame | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lame | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lame | cop |
| 21 | lame | lame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 foot | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 foot | nummod |
| 24 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lame | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 limped | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 limped | cc |
| 27 | limped | limp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 28 | hobblety | hobblety | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 jib | amod |
| 29 | jib | jib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 limped | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 jib | punct |
| 31 | hobblety | hobblety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 jib | compound |
| 32 | jib | jib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 jib | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 mounted | punct |
| 34 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 36 mounted | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 mounted | nsubj |
| 36 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 limped | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 mounted | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rode | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 rode | cc |
| 40 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 mounted | conj |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 rode | advmod |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 forest | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 forest | det |
| 44 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 forest | amod |
| 45 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rode | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | others = other | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | horse | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lead out | past | horse not said here | the horse | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | stable | lame | of one foot | tree rules | |||
| 5 | limp | past | horse not said here | hobblety jib and hobblety jib | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location jib=Theme | ||||
| 6 | mount | past | horse | stable | nevertheless property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 7 | ride away | past | horse not said here | the dark forest | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory |
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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