Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 98

Thumbling sat down quite merrily on a straw, but when the two strange men saw him, they did not know what to say for astonishment.

Who acts: two strange men, sons · What happens: thumbl, sit down, see, not know, say · To what, where: straw, Father · 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 (two strange men, sons), 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	VerbForm=Ger	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 merrily	advmod
5	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 straw	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 straw	det
8	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 men	nummod
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 saw	conj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 say	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 say	mark
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 astonishment	case
27	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	thumbl	gerund					tree rules
2	sit down	past			a straw	down, merrily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on straw=Location
3	see	past	the two strange men	Father			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	not know	past · do-support	sons = son				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				for astonishment	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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