Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 61
Meantime the countryman began to look grave, and shook his head.
Who acts: Meantime countryman · What happens: meantime, begin, look, shake · To what, where: head
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 countryman), 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 | Meantime | meantime | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 countryman | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 countryman | det |
| 3 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shook | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meantime | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Meantime countryman | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the Meantime countryman not said here | grave property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shake | past | the Meantime countryman not said here | countryman's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=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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