Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 114

Thumbling crept still farther in, and as it soon became quite dark, they were forced to go home with their vexation and their empty purses.

Who acts: Thumbling, gentlemen · What happens: creep, become, force, go, vex · To what, where: gentlemen

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 (Thumbling, gentlemen), 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	thumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 farther	advmod
4	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 in	advmod
5	in	in	ADV	_	2 crept	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 became	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 became	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 became	nsubj
10	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 became	advmod
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	conj
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 dark	advmod
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forced	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 forced	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forced	aux:pass
17	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 crept	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 forced	xcomp
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 vexation	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 vexation	nmod:poss
23	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 purses	cc
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 purses	nmod:poss
26	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 purses	amod
27	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 forced	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	creep	past	Thumbling			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	Thumbling		dark, soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	force	past · passive		gentlemen = gentleman		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go	to-infinitive	gentlemen = gentleman not said here		with gentlemen's vexation; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with vexation=Beneficiary
5	vex		gentlemen = gentleman			nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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