Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 109

So he laid the stone carefully by his side on the bank: but, as he stooped down to drink, he forgot it, pushed it a little, and down it rolled, plump into the stream.

Who acts: Meantime, side · What happens: lay, stoop down, drink, forget, push, roll · To what, where: stone, side, stream

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, side), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stone	det
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 laid	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 side	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 side	nmod:poss
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 bank	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bank	det
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 forgot	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 forgot	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 but	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 stooped	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stooped	nsubj
18	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 forgot	advcl
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 stooped	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 drink	mark
21	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stooped	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stooped	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 forgot	nsubj
24	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 forgot	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pushed	punct
27	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 forgot	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pushed	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pushed	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 rolled	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rolled	cc
33	down	down	ADV	_	35 rolled	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rolled	nsubj
35	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 plump	punct
37	plump	plump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 rolled	xcomp
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 stream	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stream	det
40	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 plump	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Meantime	the stone		by Meantime's side on the bank; carefully property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme by side=Destination
2	stoop down	past	Meantime			down property	tree rules
3	drink	to-infinitive	Meantime not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	forget	past	Meantime	side			tree rules
5	push	past	Meantime not said here	side		a little obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	roll	past	side			down property	tree rules
7	plump	infinitive	side not said here		the stream		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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