Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 150

His quarters were especially unpleasing to him, and the worst was, more and more hay was always coming in by the door, and the space grew less and less.

Who acts: quarters, worst, more hay, space · What happens: be, come in, grow · To what, where: rascal

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 (quarters, worst, more hay, space), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 quarters	nmod:poss
2	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unpleasing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unpleasing	cop
4	especially	especially	ADV	_	5 unpleasing	advmod
5	unpleasing	unpleasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unpleasing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 more	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 worst	det
11	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 more	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 more	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 more	punct
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 unpleasing	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 coming	cc
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 hay	amod
17	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coming	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 coming	aux
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 coming	advmod
20	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 more	conj
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 coming	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 door	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 coming	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 grew	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 space	det
28	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grew	nsubj
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unpleasing	conj
30	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 grew	advmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 less	cc
32	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 less	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unpleasing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	rascal's quarters	rascal	especially, unpleasing property	tree rules
2	is	past	the worst		more property	tree rules
3	come in	past · progressive	more hay		by the door; always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by door=Location
4	grow	past	the space		less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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