Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 54
Then the boy went to the gallows, sat down, and waited for evening, and as he felt cold he made a fire.
Who acts: boy · What happens: go, sit down, wait, feel, make · To what, where: gallows, fire
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 (boy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 gallows | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gallows | det |
| 7 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 waited | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 waited | cc |
| 13 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 evening | case |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 waited | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 felt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 felt | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 felt | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 felt | xcomp |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 felt | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fire | det |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the boy | the gallows | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gallows=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | the boy not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | past | the boy not said here | evening | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | boy | cold property | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past | boy | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
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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