Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 96

Upon a clear space he had turned out his sack of jewels, so that he could count and admire them, for he had not imagined that anybody would at so late an hour be coming across the common.

Who acts: voice, hour · What happens: turn out, count, admire, not imagine, come · To what, where: clear space, maidens, common

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, hour), 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	7 turned	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 space	det
3	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 space	amod
4	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj:pass
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turned	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 count	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 turned	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sack	nmod:poss
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 jewels	case
12	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sack	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 count	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 count	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 count	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 count	aux
18	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 admire	cc
20	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 count	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 admire	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 imagined	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 imagined	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 imagined	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 imagined	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 imagined	advmod
27	imagined	imagine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 count	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 would	mark
29	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 would	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 imagined	conj
31	at	at	SCONJ	_	37 coming	mark
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 late	advmod
33	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 coming	advmod
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 hour	det
35	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 coming	nsubj
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 coming	aux
37	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 would	advcl
38	across	across	ADP	_	40 common	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 common	det
40	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 coming	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 count	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn out	past · perfect · passive		a clear space			tree rules
2	count	could	voice				vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	admire	infinitive	voice not said here	maidens = maiden			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	not imagine	past · perfect	voice				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	come	infinitive · progressive	a hour		the common	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across common=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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