Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 37

As he began to put himself into the sack heels first, ‘Wait a while,’ said the gardener, ‘that is not the way.’

Who acts: sack, that · What happens: begin, put, wait, say, not be · To what, where: sack, sack heels, gardener, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sack, that), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 began	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 put	mark
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 put	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 heels	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 heels	det
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heels	compound
10	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obl
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 put	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Wait	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Wait	punct
14	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 put	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 while	det
16	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Wait	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gardener	det
21	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ‘	punct
23	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gardener	conj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 way	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 way	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 way	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gardener	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	sack					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	put	to-infinitive	sack not said here	sack	the sack heels		first property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent himself=Goal
3	wait	infinitive	sack not said here			while		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past		the gardener and ‘ and the way				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gardener=Topic
5	not is a	present	that	the way				tree rules

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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