Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 18

But as the weather grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind, he could go no farther, and turned back to the mill and begged for shelter.

Who acts: weather, storm, rain · What happens: grow, be, go, turn back, beg, storm · To what, where: mill

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather, storm, rain), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 grew	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weather	det
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 go	advcl
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 bad	advmod
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 storm	det
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 rain	case
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 storm	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wind	cc
16	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rain	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 farther	advmod
22	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 go	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 turned	cc
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 go	parataxis
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 turned	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 mill	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mill	det
29	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turned	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 begged	cc
31	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 turned	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 shelter	case
33	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 begged	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the weather		bad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	a storm of rain and wind	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	could	storm		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn back	past		the mill		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mill=Destination
5	beg speech: request	participle			for shelter	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for shelter=Topic
6	storm		rain and wind			nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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