Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 88

The King let him take these things by day into the castle, and when it was evening the youth went in and made himself a bright fire in one of the rooms, and, placing his cutting-board and knife near it, he sat down upon his lathe. "

Who acts: King, youth, castle · What happens: let, take, be, go in, make, place · To what, where: youth, things, castle, evening, cutting board, lathe

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 (King, youth, castle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 let	nsubj
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 things	det
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 day	case
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 evening	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 evening	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 evening	cop
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl:unmarked
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youth	det
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
22	in	in	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 went	conj
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 made	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fire	det
27	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fire	amod
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 one	case
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 made	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 rooms	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rooms	det
33	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 one	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sat	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sat	cc
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 placing	punct
37	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 sat	advcl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 board	nmod:poss
39	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 board	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 cutting	punct
41	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 placing	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 knife	cc
43	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 board	conj
44	near	near	ADP	_	45 it	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 knife	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 placing	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 sat	nsubj
48	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
49	down	down	ADV	_	48 sat	advmod
50	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 lathe	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 lathe	nmod:poss
52	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sat	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	the King	youth				tree rules
2	take	infinitive	youth not said here	this things	the castle	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme into castle=Destination
3	is a	past	castle	evening				tree rules
4	go in	past	the youth					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	past	the youth not said here	youth			in one of the rooms	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary fire=Product
6	place	gerund	youth not said here	youth's cutting board and knife near castle				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme
7	sit down	past	youth		youth's lathe		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon lathe=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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