Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 42

He walked nearer than a hundred paces to it, and yet he did not become fixed as before, but found that he could go quite close up to the door.

Who acts: spell · What happens: walk, not become, fix, find, go, close up · To what, where: hundred paces, flower, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spell), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 hundred	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	3 nearer	fixed
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 paces	nummod
7	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walked	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 become	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 become	cc
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	16 become	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 become	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 become	advmod
16	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 walked	advcl
17	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 become	xcomp
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 before	case
19	before	before	ADV	_	17 fixed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 go	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 found	ccomp
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 close	advmod
28	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	xcomp
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 close	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 close	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	walk	past	spell	hundred paces		flower		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pace=Theme to it=Trajectory
2	not become	past · do-support	spell				yet	tree rules
3	fix	participle	spell not said here					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	find	past	spell not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	could	spell					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	close up	infinitive	spell not said here		the door			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to door=Recipient

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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