Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 117

When he had done so and looked round again, the two pieces had joined themselves together, and an ugly man was sitting in his place. "

Who acts: half, ugly man · What happens: do, look round, join, sit · To what, where: two pieces, place

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 (half, ugly man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 looked	cc
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	conj
8	round	round	ADV	_	7 looked	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 joined	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pieces	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pieces	nummod
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 joined	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 joined	aux
15	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 done	parataxis
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 joined	obj
17	together	together	ADV	_	15 joined	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sitting	cc
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 joined	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 place	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 place	nmod:poss
27	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	half			again		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look round	past	half not said here				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	join	past · perfect · passive		the two pieces			together property	tree rules
4	sit	past · progressive	a ugly man		half's place			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=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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