Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 103

So looking around he saw a great bed in one corner, in which he lay down; but no sooner had he closed his eyes, than the bed began to move of itself and travelled all round the castle. "

Who acts: cold, bed · What happens: look around, see, lie down, close, begin, move · To what, where: great bed, one corner, eyes, castle

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, bed), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 saw	advmod
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 saw	advcl
3	around	around	ADP	_	2 looking	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bed	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bed	amod
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corner	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 corner	nummod
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lay	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 lay	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 closed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 closed	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 sooner	det
21	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 closed	advmod
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 closed	aux
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 closed	nsubj
24	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eyes	nmod:poss
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 closed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 began	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bed	det
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 began	nsubj
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 closed	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 move	mark
33	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 itself	case
35	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 move	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 travelled	cc
37	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 began	conj
38	all	all	ADV	_	41 castle	advmod
39	round	round	ADP	_	41 castle	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 castle	det
41	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 travelled	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look around	gerund	cold not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	past	cold	a great bed	one corner		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bed=Stimulus
3	lie down	past	cold			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
4	close	past	cold	cold's eyes		soon property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
5	begin	past	the bed				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	move	to-infinitive	the bed not said here			of bed	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme of itself=Trajectory
7	travel	past	the bed not said here		the castle		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round castle=Trajectory

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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