Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 17

An hour or two afterwards the landlord got up, and took his handkerchief to wipe his face, but the pin ran into him and pricked him: then he walked into the kitchen to light his pipe at the fire, but when he stirred it up the eggshells flew into his eyes, and almost blinded him.

Who acts: landlord, pin, eggshells · What happens: get up, take, wipe, run, prick, walk · To what, where: handkerchief, face, landlord, kitchen, pipe, fire

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, pin, eggshells), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 afterwards	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 two	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hour	conj
5	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 landlord	det
7	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 got	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 handkerchief	nmod:poss
14	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 wipe	mark
16	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 took	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 face	nmod:poss
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wipe	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ran	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 ran	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pin	det
22	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ran	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pricked	cc
27	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 ran	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pricked	obj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 walked	punct
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 walked	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 walked	nsubj
32	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 got	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 kitchen	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 kitchen	det
35	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 walked	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 light	mark
37	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 walked	advcl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 pipe	nmod:poss
39	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 light	obj
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 fire	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fire	det
42	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 light	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 flew	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 flew	cc
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 stirred	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stirred	nsubj
47	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 flew	advcl
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stirred	obj
49	up	up	ADP	_	47 stirred	compound:prt
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 eggshells	det
51	eggshells	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 flew	nsubj
52	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 walked	conj
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 eyes	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 eyes	nmod:poss
55	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 flew	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 blinded	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 blinded	cc
58	almost	almost	ADV	_	59 blinded	advmod
59	blinded	blind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 walked	conj
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 blinded	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the landlord				afterwards property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	take	past	the landlord not said here	landlord's handkerchief				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme
3	wipe	to-infinitive	the landlord not said here	landlord's face				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source
4	run	past	the pin				into landlord	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into he=Result
5	prick	past	the pin not said here	landlord				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
6	walk	past	landlord			then	into the kitchen result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result
7	light	to-infinitive	landlord not said here	landlord's pipe	the fire			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product
8	stir up	past	landlord	pin				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient
9	fly	past	the eggshells				into landlord's eyes result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into eye=Result
10	blind	past	landlord not said here	landlord			almost property	tree rules

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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