Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 4

Now, whether it was that they had eaten so many nuts that they could not walk, or whether they were lazy and would not, I do not know: however, they took it into their heads that it did not become them to go home on foot.

Who acts: nuts, I, holiday · What happens: eat, not walk, be, not know, take, not become · To what, where: holiday, heads, nuts, foot

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 (nuts, I, holiday), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 eaten	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 eaten	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eaten	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	aux:pass
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 eaten	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eaten	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	aux
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nuts	amod
12	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eaten	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 walk	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 walk	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 walk	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 walk	advmod
17	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eaten	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 know	cc
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	23 lazy	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lazy	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lazy	cop
23	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 know	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 would	cc
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 lazy	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 would	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lazy	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 know	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 know	advmod
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 walk	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 took	punct
33	however	however	ADV	_	36 took	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 however	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 took	nsubj
36	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 took	obj
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 heads	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 heads	nmod:poss
40	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 took	obl
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 become	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 become	nsubj
43	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 become	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 become	advmod
45	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 took	advcl
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 become	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 go	mark
48	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 become	xcomp
49	home	home	ADV	_	48 go	advmod
50	on	on	ADP	_	51 foot	case
51	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 go	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect · passive		holiday		now		tree rules
2	not walk	could	nuts = nut					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	would · past	nuts = nut				lazy property	tree rules
4	not know	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	take	past	nuts = nut	holiday	nuts's heads		however property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination
6	not become	past · do-support	holiday	nuts = nut				tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	holiday not said here		foot		home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foot=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: «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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