Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 79

While Bearskin sat by himself in the evening, wishing from his heart that the seven years were over, he heard in the corner a loud groan.

Who acts: Bearskin, seven years · What happens: sit, wish, be, hear · To what, where: heart, loud groan, corner

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 (Bearskin, seven years), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	3 sat	mark
2	Bearskin	Bearskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 heard	advcl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 sat	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 evening	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wishing	punct
10	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 heart	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 heart	nmod:poss
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wishing	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 over	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 years	det
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 over	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 over	cop
19	over	over	ADV	_	13 heart	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 heard	nsubj
22	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 corner	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 corner	det
25	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 groan	det
27	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 groan	amod
28	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heard	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Bearskin			evening	by BEARSKIN	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by himself=Location
2	wish	gerund	Bearskin not said here		BEARSKIN's heart			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	past	the seven years	BEARSKIN's heart not said here			over property	tree rules
4	hear	past	BEARSKIN	a loud groan	the corner			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=Stimulus

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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