Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 40

In the gloom of evening therefore, he let himself down again; but when he had clambered down the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the enchantress standing before him.

Who acts: husband, enchantress · What happens: let down, clamber, be, see, stand · To what, where: husband, gloom, enchantress

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, enchantress), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 gloom	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gloom	det
3	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 evening	case
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gloom	nmod
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 gloom	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gloom	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	nsubj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 let	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 let	compound:prt
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 let	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 clambered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 clambered	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 clambered	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 clambered	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 clambered	aux
18	clambered	clamber	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 let	parataxis
19	down	down	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 afraid	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 afraid	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 afraid	cop
24	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	25 afraid	advmod
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 clambered	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 saw	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 afraid	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 enchantress	det
31	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	obj
32	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 enchantress	acl
33	before	before	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 standing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let down	past	husband	husband	the gloom of evening	again		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	clamber	past · perfect	husband					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	husband				down the wall; afraid, terribly property	tree rules
4	see	past	husband	the enchantress				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantress=Stimulus
5	stand	gerund	the enchantress not said here			before husband		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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