Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 141
Thumbling had climbed up among the hay and found a beautiful place to sleep in: there he intended to rest until day, and then go home again to his parents.
Who acts: Huntsman · What happens: thumbl, climb up, find, sleep in, intend, rest · To what, where: beautiful place
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 (Huntsman), 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 | 3 climbed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | aux |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 climbed | compound:prt |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 hay | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hay | det |
| 7 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sleep | compound:prt |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 intended | punct |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 intended | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 intended | nsubj |
| 19 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 rest | mark |
| 21 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 intended | xcomp |
| 22 | until | until | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rest | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 go | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 go | advmod |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 intended | conj |
| 28 | home | home | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 parents | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 parents | nmod:poss |
| 32 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 go | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thumbl | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | climb up | past · perfect · passive | among the hay | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | a beautiful place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sleep in | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | intend | past | Huntsman | there | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | rest not said to happen | to-infinitive | Huntsman not said here | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | Huntsman not said here | then; again | to Huntsman's parents; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to parent=Initial_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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