Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 108

At last he could go no farther, for the stone tired him sadly: and he dragged himself to the side of a river, that he might take a drink of water, and rest a while.

Who acts: Meantime · What happens: go, drag, take, rest · To what, where: last, Meantime, side, drink

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 farther	advmod
7	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 go	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tired	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 tired	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stone	det
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tired	obl:unmarked
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tired	obj
14	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 dragged	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 dragged	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dragged	nsubj
18	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	parataxis
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 dragged	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 side	det
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dragged	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 river	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 river	det
25	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 take	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 take	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 take	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 take	aux
30	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 dragged	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 drink	det
32	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 water	case
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drink	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rest	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 rest	cc
37	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 take	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 while	det
39	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rest	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	could	Meantime		last		far, sadly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	drag	past	Meantime	Meantime	the side of a river			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to side=Destination
3	take	might	Meantime	a drink of water				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme
4	rest	infinitive	Meantime not said here			while		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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