Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Queen Bee, sentence 19

At last came the little dwarf’s turn; and he looked in the moss; but it was so hard to find the pearls, and the job was so tiresome!--so he sat down upon a stone and cried.

Who acts: turn, job · What happens: come, look, be, find, sit down, cry · To what, where: last, pearls, stone

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Queen Bee. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn, job), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	obl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarf	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dwarf	amod
6	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 dwarf	case
8	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 moss	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 moss	det
15	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 hard	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 hard	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hard	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hard	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 hard	advmod
21	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hard	csubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pearls	det
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 find	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tiresome	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tiresome	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 job	det
29	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tiresome	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tiresome	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 tiresome	advmod
32	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hard	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 tiresome	punct
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 sat	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 sat	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sat	nsubj
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
38	down	down	ADP	_	37 sat	compound:prt
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	41 stone	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 stone	det
41	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sat	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 cried	cc
43	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sat	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the little dwarf's turn		last		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	look	past	turn			in the moss	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in moss=Theme
3	is	past				hard property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive		the pearls			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pearl=Topic
5	is	past	the job			tiresome property	tree rules
6	sit down	past	turn		a stone		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon stone=Location
7	cry speech: express	past	turn not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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