Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 12

The wife liked the thought; so they left a light burning, and hid themselves in a corner of the room, behind a curtain that was hung up there, and watched what would happen.

Who acts: wife, shoes, light · What happens: like, leave, burn, hide, hang up, watch · To what, where: thought, light, shoes, corner, curtain

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Elves and the Shoemaker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, shoes, light), 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 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thought	det
5	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 left	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 liked	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 light	det
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obj
12	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 light	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hid	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hid	cc
15	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 hid	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 corner	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 corner	det
19	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hid	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 corner	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 curtain	punct
24	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 curtain	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 curtain	det
26	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hid	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 hung	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hung	aux:pass
29	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 curtain	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 hung	compound:prt
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 hung	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 watched	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 watched	cc
34	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 liked	parataxis
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 happen	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 happen	aux
37	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 watched	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	past	the wife	the thought			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thought=Theme
2	leave	past	shoes = shoe	a light			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	burn	gerund	a light not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hide	past	shoes = shoe not said here	shoes = shoe	a corner of the room	behind a curtain	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in corner=Location
5	hang up	past · passive		a curtain	there		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	watch	past					tree rules
7	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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