Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 120

Not long afterwards, when he was just going to sleep, he heard two men go by, and one of them was saying, "How shall we contrive to get hold of the rich pastor's silver and gold?" "

Who acts: fellow, two men, one, we · What happens: go, sleep, hear, go by, say, contrive · To what, where: hold, silver · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fellow, two men, one, we), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 heard	advmod
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 going	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 going	advmod
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 heard	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sleep	mark
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 men	nummod
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	ccomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	17 go	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saying	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 saying	cc
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 saying	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 one	nmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 saying	aux
25	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 heard	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 contrive	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 contrive	punct
28	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 contrive	advmod
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 contrive	aux
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 contrive	nsubj
31	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 saying	ccomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 get	mark
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 contrive	xcomp
34	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	40 silver	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 pastor	det
37	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 pastor	amod
38	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 silver	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 pastor	case
40	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hold	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 gold	cc
42	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hold	conj
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 contrive	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 contrive	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 contrive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	fellow			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep	to-infinitive	fellow not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	fellow		long property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go by	present	two men			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: ask	past · progressive	one of gentlemen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	contrive in a quote	shall	we			tree rules
7	get in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	hold of the rich pastor's silver and gold		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
8	hold in a quote			the rich pastor's silver		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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