Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 32
The old man tried to hinder him, but he was bent upon going.
Who acts: old man · What happens: try, hinder, bend, go · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hinder | mark |
| 6 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hinder | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bent | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 bent | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bent | aux:pass |
| 12 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tried | conj |
| 13 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 bent | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the old man | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hinder not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | man | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bend | past · passive | man | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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