Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson, sentence 10

The man and his wife looked at each other for a while, and presently began to cry.

Who acts: man · What happens: look, begin, cry

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Old Man and His Grandson. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wife	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	conj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 looked	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 while	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 while	det
12	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
15	presently	presently	ADV	_	16 began	advmod
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 cry	mark
18	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the man and man's wife	while	at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
2	begin	past	the man and man's wife not said here		presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the man and man's wife not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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