Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 22

He sat for a while very sorrowfully, then suddenly he felt in his pocket and found his tobacco pipe, which was still half full.

Who acts: soldier, tobacco pipe · What happens: sit, feel, find, be · To what, where: tobacco pipe

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, tobacco pipe), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 while	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 while	det
5	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 sorrowfully	advmod
7	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 felt	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 felt	advmod
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 felt	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 pocket	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 pocket	nmod:poss
15	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 felt	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 felt	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pipe	nmod:poss
19	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pipe	compound
20	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 full	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 full	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 full	cop
24	still	still	ADV	_	26 full	advmod
25	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 full	advmod
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pipe	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	soldier		while	sorrowfully property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	soldier		then	in soldier's pocket; suddenly property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pocket=Attribute
3	find	past	soldier not said here	soldier's tobacco pipe			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Topic
4	is	past	soldier's tobacco pipe		still	full, half property	tree rules

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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