Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 58

Then he poked and blew the fire, and set them round that they might warm themselves; but as they sat still without moving their clothing caught fire.

Who acts: wind, bodies · What happens: poke, blow, set, warm, sit, move · To what, where: fire, bodies, clothing

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 (wind, bodies), 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	3 poked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poked	nsubj
3	poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 blew	cc
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poked	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 set	cc
10	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 poked	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	obj
12	round	round	ADP	_	16 warm	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 warm	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 warm	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 warm	aux
16	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 set	advcl
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 warm	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 sat	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poked	conj
23	still	still	ADV	_	22 sat	advmod
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 moving	mark
25	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 clothing	nmod:poss
27	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moving	obj
28	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 fire	amod
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moving	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 poked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	poke	past	wind		then	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	blow	past	wind not said here	the fire		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
3	set	infinitive	wind not said here	bodies = body		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result
4	warm	might	bodies = body	bodies = body		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
5	sit	past	bodies = body		still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	move	gerund	bodies = body not said here	bodies's clothing		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent clothing=Theme fire=Result
7	catch	participle				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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