Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 36

But the heat grew greater as soon as noon came on, till at last, as he found himself on a wide heath that would take him more than an hour to cross, he began to be so hot and parched that his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.

Who acts: heat, noon, wide heath · What happens: grow, come on, find, take, cross, begin · To what, where: heat, wide heath

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 (heat, noon, wide heath), 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	_	4 grew	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heat	det
3	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grew	xcomp
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grew	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 last	advcl
11	on	on	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 last	punct
13	till	till	ADP	_	15 last	case
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 found	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 last	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 found	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 heath	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 heath	det
23	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heath	amod
24	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 take	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 heath	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 hour	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 hour	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hour	det
32	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 cross	mark
34	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 hour	acl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 began	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 began	nsubj
37	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 found	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	41 hot	mark
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 hot	cop
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 hot	advmod
41	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 began	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 parched	cc
43	parched	parch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 began	conj
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 clave	mark
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 clave	nmod:poss
46	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 clave	compound
47	clave	clave	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 parched	ccomp
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 roof	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 roof	det
50	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 clave	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 mouth	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 mouth	nmod:poss
53	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 roof	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 clave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the heat					great, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come on	past	noon						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	heat	heat		a wide heath			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
4	take	would	a wide heath		heat		hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
5	cross	to-infinitive	a wide heath not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	begin	past	heat						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	is	to-infinitive	heat not said here					hot property	tree rules
8	parch	past	heat not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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