Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 102
As soon as he returned he blew up the sparks of his fire again and warmed himself, and while he sat his eyes began to feel very heavy and he wished to go to sleep.
Who acts: cold, eyes, fire · What happens: return, blow up, warm, sit, begin, feel · To what, where: sparks, cold, sleep
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cold, eyes, fire), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 blew | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 returned | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blew | nsubj |
| 7 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 blew | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sparks | det |
| 10 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blew | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fire | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sparks | nmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 blew | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 warmed | cc |
| 16 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blew | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 warmed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sat | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sat | cc |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 sat | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sat | nsubj |
| 22 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 blew | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 began | nsubj |
| 25 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sat | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 feel | mark |
| 27 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 began | xcomp |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 heavy | advmod |
| 29 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 feel | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wished | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wished | nsubj |
| 32 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sat | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 wished | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 sleep | case |
| 36 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | cold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | blow up | past | cold | the sparks of cold's fire | again | soon property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent spark=Patient | ||
| 3 | warm | past | cold not said here | cold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | cold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | cold's eyes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | feel | to-infinitive | cold's eyes not said here | heavy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | wish | past | cold | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | cold not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | spark | cold's fire | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 10 | fire | cold | nom fire «event 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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