Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 104

Thumbling, however, when he heard of the bargain, had crept up the folds of his father's coat, placed himself on his shoulder, and whispered in his ear. "

Who acts: money · What happens: thumbl, hear, creep up, place, whisper · To what, where: folds, money, shoulder, ear

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money), 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	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 heard	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	1 Thumbling	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thumbling	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bargain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bargain	det
10	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crept	punct
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crept	aux
13	crept	creep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 heard	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	16 folds	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 folds	det
16	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crept	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 coat	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 coat	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 father	case
21	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 folds	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 placed	punct
23	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 placed	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 shoulder	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoulder	nmod:poss
27	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 whispered	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 whispered	cc
30	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 ear	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 ear	nmod:poss
33	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 whispered	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thumbl	gerund	money not said here			however property	tree rules
2	hear	past	money			of the bargain	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of bargain=Stimulus
3	creep up	past · perfect	money not said here	the folds of money's father's coat			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fold=Theme
4	place	past	money not said here	money	money's shoulder		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on shoulder=Destination
5	whisper speech: assert	past	money not said here		money's ear		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location

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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