Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 62
So he hung them up again in a row, and sitting down by the fire he soon went to sleep.
Who acts: wind · What happens: hang up, sit down, go · To what, where: rags, row, sleep
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), 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 | _ | 3 hung | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hung | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 hung | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 hung | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 row | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 row | det |
| 9 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sitting | cc |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hung | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 sitting | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 went | advmod |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sitting | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sleep | case |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang up | past | wind | rags = rag | a row | again | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in row=Destination | ||
| 2 | sit down | gerund | wind not said here | by the fire; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | wind | sleep | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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