Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 47

The youth sat down in the garden and considered how it might be possible to perform this task, but he could think of nothing, and there he sat sorrowfully awaiting the break of day, when he should be led to death.

Who acts: youth, it · What happens: sit down, consider, be, perform, think, sit · To what, where: garden, task, break, youth, death, day

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 considered	cc
9	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 possible	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 possible	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 possible	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 possible	cop
14	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 considered	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 perform	mark
16	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 possible	csubj
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 task	det
18	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 perform	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 think	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 think	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 think	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 think	aux
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	advcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 nothing	case
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 think	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sat	cc
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 sat	expl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
31	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	30 sat	advmod
32	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sat	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 break	det
34	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 awaiting	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 day	case
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 break	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 led	punct
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 led	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 led	nsubj
40	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 led	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 led	aux:pass
42	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 sat	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 death	case
44	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 led	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the youth		the garden		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
2	consider	past	the youth not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	is	might	it			possible property	tree rules
4	perform	to-infinitive		this task			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme
5	think speech: other	could	youth			of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sit	past	youth		there	sorrowfully property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	await	gerund	youth not said here	the break of day			tree rules
8	lead	should · passive		youth	death		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to death=Destination
9	break			day			nom break «event transitive»: of=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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