Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 119

The man tried to push him away, but the youth would not let him, and giving him a violent push sat himself down in his old place.

Who acts: man, youth, giving · What happens: try, push away, not let, give, sit down · To what, where: man, violent push, old 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 (man, youth, giving), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 push	mark
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 push	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 push	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 push	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
18	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 sat	csubj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 giving	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 push	det
21	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 push	amod
22	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 giving	obj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 sat	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 sat	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 place	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 place	nmod:poss
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 place	amod
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	the man					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	push away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the man not said here	man			away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not let	would	the youth	man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	give	gerund		a violent push	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient push=Theme
5	sit down	past	giving	man		youth's old place		tree rules

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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