Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 49

Presently a man came up, who heard the boy talking to himself; and, as they we're just passing the place where the gallows stood, the man said, "Do you see?

Who acts: man, boy, dollars, gallows, you · What happens: come up, hear, talk, pass, stand, say · To what, where: boy, man, place · 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 (man, boy, dollars, gallows), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 boy	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 talking	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 passing	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 passing	nsubj
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 passing	nsubj
20	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 passing	aux
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 passing	advmod
22	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 said	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 place	det
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 passing	obj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 stood	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gallows	det
27	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 place	acl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 passing	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 see	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 see	punct
35	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 see	aux
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 see	nsubj
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 said	conj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	a man			presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past		the boy			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
3	talk	gerund	the boy not said here		man		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-Agent
4	pass	present · progressive	dollars = dollar	the place			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Trajectory
5	stand	past	the gallows				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: ask	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	see in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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