Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 57

So his compassion was excited, and, contriving a ladder, he mounted, and, unloosening them one after another, he brought down all seven.

Who acts: compassion, wind · What happens: be, contrive, mount, unloosen, bring down · To what, where: ladder, bodies, seven

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 (compassion, wind), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 excited	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 compassion	nmod:poss
3	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 excited	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 excited	cop
5	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mounted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mounted	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 contriving	punct
9	contriving	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 mounted	ccomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ladder	det
11	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 contriving	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 contriving	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mounted	nsubj
14	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 excited	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 unloosening	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 unloosening	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 unloosening	punct
18	unloosening	unloosen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 mounted	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 unloosening	obj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 unloosening	obj
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 another	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	nsubj
25	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 excited	conj
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 brought	advmod
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 seven	advmod
28	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 brought	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 excited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	wind's compassion		excited property	tree rules
2	contrive	gerund	wind not said here	a ladder		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Result
3	mount	past	wind			tree rules
4	unloosen	gerund	wind not said here	bodies = body		tree rules
5	bring down	past	wind	seven	down property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent seven=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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