Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 41

The guest, however, thought no otherwise than that he was to give up one of his ears, and ran as if fire were burning under him, in order to take them both with him.

Who acts: guest, master, fire · What happens: think, give up, run, burn, take · To what, where: no, one, ears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guest, master, fire), 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 guest	det
2	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 guest	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 thought	obj
8	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 otherwise	fixed
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 give	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 give	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 give	mark
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thought	ccomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 give	compound:prt
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 give	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ears	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ears	nmod:poss
19	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ran	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ran	cc
22	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	conj
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 burning	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 burning	mark
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 burning	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 burning	aux
27	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 ran	advcl
28	under	under	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 burning	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct
31	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 take	mark
32	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 in	fixed
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 ran	parataxis
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	both	both	ADV	_	34 take	advmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the guest	no	however, otherwise property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent no=Attribute clause=Theme
2	give up	past	master	one of master's ears		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Source
3	run	past	the guest not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burn	past · progressive	fire		under master	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under he=Location
5	take	to-infinitive		ears = ear	with master; both property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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