Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 70

Soon after they came into a wood and looked about for the thieves, but they, could not find them, and when it became dark they climbed up into a tree to pass the night.

Who acts: apples, door · What happens: come, look, not find, become, climb up, pass · To what, where: wood, thieves, tree

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 (apples, door), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 looked	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 thieves	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thieves	det
13	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 looked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 find	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 find	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 find	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 they	punct
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 find	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 find	advmod
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 find	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 became	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 climbed	nsubj
29	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 became	xcomp
30	up	up	ADV	_	29 climbed	advmod
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 tree	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 climbed	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 pass	mark
35	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 climbed	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 night	det
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pass	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	apples = apple		a wood		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	look	past	apples = apple not said here				for the thieves; about property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for thief=Theme
3	not find	could	apples = apple	thieves = thief				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	become	past	door				dark property	tree rules
5	climb up	past	apples = apple		a tree			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination
6	pass	to-infinitive	apples = apple not said here			night		vn occur-48.3-1 «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: «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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