Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 48

While he was thinking what to do, he saw the fairy had taken down one of the cages, and was making the best of her way off through the door.

Who acts: spell · What happens: think, do, see, take down, make · To what, where: fairy, best · 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 thinking	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thinking	aux
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saw	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thinking	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fairy	det
12	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taken	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taken	aux
14	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 saw	ccomp
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 taken	compound:prt
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 taken	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 cages	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cages	det
19	cages	cage	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 making	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 making	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 making	aux
23	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 saw	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 best	det
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 making	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 way	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 way	nmod:poss
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 best	obl
29	off	off	ADV	_	32 door	advmod
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 door	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 way	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	spell		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	see	past	spell		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	take down	past · perfect · passive		the fairy	tree rules
5	make	past · progressive	spell not said here	the best	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset good=Product

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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