Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 111

The man took his hat off, and put the little fellow on the ground by the wayside, and he leapt and crept about a little between the sods, and then he suddenly slipped into a mouse-hole which he had sought out. "

Who acts: man, fellow · What happens: take off, put, leapt, creep, slip, seek out · To what, where: hat, little fellow, ground, mouse hole

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 (man, fellow), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hat	nmod:poss
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 put	cc
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fellow	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fellow	amod
12	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 wayside	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wayside	det
18	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leapt	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 leapt	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 leapt	nsubj
22	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 crept	cc
24	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 leapt	conj
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 little	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 little	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 crept	obl
28	between	between	ADP	_	30 sods	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sods	det
30	sods	sod	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 crept	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 slipped	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 slipped	cc
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 slipped	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 slipped	nsubj
35	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	36 slipped	advmod
36	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
37	into	into	ADP	_	41 hole	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 hole	det
39	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hole	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 mouse	punct
41	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 slipped	obl
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 sought	nsubj:pass
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sought	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 sought	aux
45	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 hole	acl:relcl
46	out	out	ADP	_	45 sought	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	the man	man's hat				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
2	put	infinitive	the man not said here	the little fellow	the ground		by the wayside	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme on ground=Destination
3	leapt	past	fellow					tree rules
4	creep	past	fellow not said here				about a little; between the sods	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about little=Trajectory
5	slip	past	fellow		a mouse hole	then	suddenly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	seek out	past · perfect · passive		a mouse hole				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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