Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 112

Presently a man came by and saw her, and stood still, for he thought it was the Evil One who was grovelling so among the roots.

Who acts: man, earth, Evil One · What happens: come by, see, stand, think, be, grovell · To what, where: Catherine, Evil One · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, earth, Evil One), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	4 came	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stood	cc
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
12	still	still	ADV	_	11 stood	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thought	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 thought	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thought	nsubj
16	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 One	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 One	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 One	det
20	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 One	amod
21	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 thought	ccomp
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 grovelling	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grovelling	aux
24	grovelling	grovell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 One	acl:relcl
25	so	so	ADV	_	24 grovelling	advmod
26	among	among	ADP	_	28 roots	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roots	det
28	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 grovelling	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come by	past	a man			presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	a man not said here	Catherine			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	stand	past	a man not said here		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	man				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	earth	the Evil One			tree rules
6	grovell	past · progressive	the Evil One			among the roots	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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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