Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Elves and the Shoemaker, sentence 5

The good man knew not what to say or think at such an odd thing happening.

Who acts: good man, odd thing · What happens: not know, say, think, happen · To what, where: odd thing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (good man, odd thing), 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	3 man	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 knew	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knew	ccomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 think	cc
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	15 thing	case
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 thing	det:predet
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 think	obl
16	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 thing	acl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	not know	past	the good man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	think speech: other	infinitive		such odd thing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	happen	gerund	such odd thing not said here		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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