Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 59

When they went into the cave, other giants were sitting there by the fire, and each of them had a roasted sheep in his hand and was eating it.

Who acts: huntsmen, other giants, each · What happens: go, sit, have, roast, eat · To what, where: cave, roasted sheep, hand

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsmen, other giants, each), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 cave	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cave	det
6	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sitting	punct
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 giants	amod
9	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sitting	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sitting	aux
11	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 sitting	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 fire	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 had	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 each	nmod
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sheep	det
23	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 sheep	amod
24	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 hand	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hand	nmod:poss
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 eating	cc
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 eating	aux
30	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 eating	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	huntsmen = huntsman		the cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location
2	sit	past · progressive	other giants		there	by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	have	past	each	a roasted sheep	sheep's hand		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
4	roast	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	eat	past · progressive	huntsmen = huntsman not said here	hand			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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