Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 99
When he got near the battlefield a great part of the king’s men had already fallen, and little was wanting to make the rest give way.
Who acts: horse, great part · What happens: get, fall, want, make, give · To what, where: battlefield, rest, way
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 (horse, great part), 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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 battlefield | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battlefield | det |
| 6 | battlefield | battlefield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 part | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 part | amod |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fallen | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 men | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 part | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fallen | aux |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 fallen | advmod |
| 17 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wanting | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wanting | cc |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wanting | amod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wanting | aux |
| 22 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 give | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rest | det |
| 26 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wanting | parataxis |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 give | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | horse | the battlefield | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fall | past · perfect | a great part of the king's men | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | want | past · progressive | horse not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the rest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rest=Product | |||||
| 5 | give | present | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
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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