Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 68

The messenger stopped at the sleeper's side, and waited till he stretched out his limbs and unclosed his eyes, and then he mentioned to him his message. "

Who acts: messenger · What happens: stop, wait, stretch out, unclos, mention · To what, where: side, limbs, eyes, message, King

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger), 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 messenger	det
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sleeper	det
6	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sleeper	case
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 waited	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 waited	cc
11	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	parataxis
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 stretched	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stretched	nsubj
14	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 waited	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 stretched	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 limbs	nmod:poss
17	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stretched	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 unclosed	cc
19	unclosed	unclos	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 waited	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 unclosed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 mentioned	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 mentioned	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 mentioned	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 mentioned	nsubj
26	mentioned	mention	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 mentioned	obl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 message	nmod:poss
30	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 mentioned	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	stop	past	the messenger			the sleeper's side		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=Location
2	wait	past						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stretch out	past	messenger	messenger's limbs				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent limb=Patient
4	unclos	past		messenger's eyes				tree rules
5	mention speech: other	past	messenger	King's message	King		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent message=Topic to he=Recipient

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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