Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 156

I can do that still better," said the youth, and went to another anvil, while the old man followed him and watched him, with his long beard hanging down.

Who acts: I, old man, long beard · What happens: do, say, go, follow, watch, hang down · To what, where: that, youth, anvil, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, old man, long beard), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	parataxis
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 do	obj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 do	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 better	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 anvil	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 anvil	det
17	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 followed	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 followed	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 followed	nsubj
23	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 followed	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 watched	cc
26	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 watched	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 beard	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 beard	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 beard	nmod:poss
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 beard	amod
32	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 watched	obl
33	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 beard	acl
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 hanging	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	can	I	that		good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the youth			tree rules
3	go in a quote	past			another anvil		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to anvil=Initial_Location
4	follow in a quote	past	the old man	youth			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	watch in a quote	past		man		with man's long beard	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	hang down in a quote	gerund	man's long beard not said here			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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