Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 135

The thieves, however, had in their fright run some distance away, but at last they took courage, and thought, "The little rascal wants to mock us."

Who acts: thieves, fright, little rascal · What happens: have, run away, take, think, want, mock · To what, where: distance, courage, last, us · 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 (thieves, fright, little rascal), 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 thieves	det
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thieves	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 run	mark
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fright	nmod:poss
9	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	nsubj
10	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 had	advcl
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 distance	det
12	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	obj
13	away	away	ADV	_	10 run	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 took	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
20	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thought	cc
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wants	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 wants	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rascal	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rascal	amod
28	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wants	nsubj
29	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 mock	mark
31	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wants	xcomp
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 mock	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 wants	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 wants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the thieves			however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	run away	present	thieves's fright	some distance		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
3	take	past	thieves = thief	courage	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent courage=Theme at last=Asset
4	think speech: other	past	the thieves not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	want in a quote	present	the little rascal				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	mock not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the little rascal not said here	us			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
7	fright		thieves = thief				nom fright «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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