Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 30

He listened to them, and when he became aware of what they were saying, he grew very thoughtful and sad.

Who acts: country, frogs · What happens: listen, become, say, grow · To what, where: frogs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (country, frogs), 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 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 listened	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grew	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 became	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 became	nsubj
9	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grew	advcl
10	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 became	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 aware	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saying	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saying	aux
15	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 what	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 became	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	conj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 thoughtful	advmod
20	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sad	cc
22	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thoughtful	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	country	frogs = frog		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
2	become	past	country		aware property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past · progressive	frogs = frog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	country		thoughtful property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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