Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 140
After a little while the body became warm and began to move about. "
Who acts: body · What happens: become, begin, move about
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 (body), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 became | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 body | det |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 move | mark |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 move | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the body | after a little | warm property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the body not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | move about | to-infinitive | the body not said here | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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