Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 32

So at last they set out together, and took with them their little child; and she chose a large hall with thick walls for him to sit in while the wedding-torches were lighted; but, unluckily, no one saw that there was a crack in the door.

Who acts: thoughts, child, one, crack · What happens: set out, take, choose, sit in, light, see · To what, where: last, little child, large hall, wedding torches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, child, one, crack), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 set	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 set	nsubj
5	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 set	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 child	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 chose	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chose	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 chose	nsubj
19	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hall	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hall	amod
22	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chose	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 walls	case
24	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 walls	amod
25	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 chose	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 chose	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sit	mark
29	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 chose	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	29 sit	compound:prt
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 lighted	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 torches	det
33	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 torches	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 wedding	punct
35	torches	torch	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 lighted	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lighted	aux:pass
37	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 sit	advcl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 saw	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 saw	cc
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 but	punct
41	unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	45 saw	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 saw	punct
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 one	det
44	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 saw	nsubj
45	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 was	mark
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 was	expl
48	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 saw	ccomp
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 crack	det
50	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 was	nsubj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 door	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 door	det
53	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 crack	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	thoughts = thought			last	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	thoughts = thought not said here		thoughts's little child		with thoughts = thought	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
3	choose	past	child	a large hall			with thick walls; for feast	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hall=Theme for he=Beneficiary
4	sit in	to-infinitive	child not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	light	past · passive		the wedding torches				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
6	see	past	no one				unluckily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	be	past	a crack in the door			there		vn exist-47.1 «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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