Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 22

When he went inside, the dogs did not bark at him, but wagged their tails quite amicably around him, ate what he set before them, and did not hurt one hair of his head.

Who acts: youth, dogs · What happens: go, not bark, wag, eat, set, not hurt · To what, where: tails, one hair

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, dogs), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bark	advcl
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bark	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bark	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 bark	advmod
10	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bark	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wagged	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 wagged	cc
15	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bark	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tails	nmod:poss
17	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wagged	obj
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 amicably	advmod
19	amicably	amicably	ADV	_	15 wagged	advmod
20	around	around	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wagged	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ate	punct
23	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wagged	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 ate	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	nsubj
26	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 what	acl:relcl
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hurt	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hurt	cc
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hurt	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 hurt	advmod
33	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bark	conj
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 hair	nummod
35	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hurt	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 head	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hair	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	youth			inside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not bark	past · do-support	the dogs			at youth	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus
3	wag	past		dogs's tails		around youth; amicably property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	eat	past					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
5	set	past	youth		before dogs = dog		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before they=Destination
6	not hurt	past · do-support	the dogs not said here	one hair of youth's head			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/41/22/