Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 73

The ambassador remained standing by the sleeper, waited until he stretched his limbs and opened his eyes, and then conveyed to him this proposal.

Who acts: ambassador · What happens: remain, stand, wait, stretch, open, convey · To what, where: limbs, eyes, proposal, ambassador

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 (ambassador), 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 ambassador	det
2	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 remained	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 sleeper	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sleeper	det
7	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 standing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waited	punct
9	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	conj
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 stretched	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stretched	nsubj
12	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 waited	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 limbs	nmod:poss
14	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stretched	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 opened	cc
16	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stretched	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 opened	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 conveyed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 conveyed	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 conveyed	advmod
22	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 conveyed	obl
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 proposal	det
26	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 conveyed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the ambassador					tree rules
2	stand	gerund	the ambassador not said here				by the sleeper	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sleeper=Location
3	wait	past	the ambassador not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stretch	past	ambassador	ambassador's limbs				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent limb=Patient
5	open	past	ambassador not said here	ambassador's eyes				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
6	convey	past	the ambassador not said here	this proposal	ambassador	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent proposal=Topic to he=Recipient

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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