Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 74

For the first year his appearance was not very remarkable, but in the second he began to look quite a monster.

Who acts: appearance, soldier · What happens: not be, begin, look · To what, where: monster

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, soldier), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 year	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 year	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remarkable	obl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 appearance	nmod:poss
6	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remarkable	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 remarkable	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 remarkable	advmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 remarkable	advmod
10	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 second	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 second	det
15	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 remarkable	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	22 monster	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 monster	det
22	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 look	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 remarkable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	soldier's appearance		year	remarkable property	tree rules
2	begin	past	soldier		second		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	soldier not said here	quite monster			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme monster=Attribute

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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