Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 113

She sat down in one corner of the room, and began to bewail her hard fate; when on a sudden the door opened, and a droll-looking little man hobbled in, and said, ‘Good morrow to you, my good lass; what are you weeping for?’

Who acts: door, looking little man, you · What happens: sit down, begin, bewail, open, look, hobble · To what, where: one corner, hard fate, sudden door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, looking little man, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 corner	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 corner	nummod
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 corner	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bewail	mark
14	bewail	bewail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fate	nmod:poss
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fate	amod
17	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bewail	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 opened	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 opened	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 door	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 door	det
22	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 door	amod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 opened	obl
25	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hobbled	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hobbled	cc
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
29	droll	droll	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 looking	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 droll	punct
31	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 man	amod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hobbled	nsubj
34	hobbled	hobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 opened	conj
35	in	in	ADV	_	34 hobbled	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 morrow	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 morrow	punct
41	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 morrow	amod
42	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 said	ccomp
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 you	case
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 morrow	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lass	punct
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 lass	nmod:poss
47	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 lass	amod
48	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 morrow	conj
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 weeping	punct
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 weeping	obj
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 weeping	aux
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 weeping	nsubj
53	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 said	advcl
54	for	for	ADP	_	53 weeping	obl
55	?	?	PUNCT	_	53 weeping	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	53 weeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit down	past	door		one corner of the room	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
2	begin	past	door not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bewail	to-infinitive	door not said here	door's hard fate		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus
4	open	past			a sudden door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location
5	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	hobble	past	a looking little man			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	door not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	weep	present · progressive	you			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
9	fate		door			nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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