Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Dog and the Sparrow, sentence 43
The carter was forced at last to leave his cart behind him, and to go home overflowing with rage and vexation.
Who acts: carter · What happens: force, leave, go, overflow · To what, where: carter, last, cart
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Dog and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carter), 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 | 2 carter | det |
| 2 | carter | carter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forced | aux:pass |
| 4 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 last | case |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 forced | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 go | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 rage | case |
| 20 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 overflowing | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 vexation | cc |
| 22 | vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rage | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | the carter | last | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the carter not said here | harm's cart | behind harm | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cart=Theme behind he=Location | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | overflow | gerund | with rage and vexation | tree rules |
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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