Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 48

Then he ran home, shut the house-door, and sat down in his chair and worked.

Who acts: corn · What happens: run, shut, sit down, work · To what, where: house door, chair

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ran	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shut	punct
6	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ran	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 house	punct
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shut	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 chair	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 chair	nmod:poss
17	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 worked	cc
19	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sat	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	corn			then	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shut	infinitive	corn not said here	the house door				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	sit down	past			corn's chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
4	work	past						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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