Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 62

The man now thought he should like to continue his journey, but the giant begged him to remain for a day or two longer until the return of his brother, who was away in search of provisions.

Who acts: man, giant, brother · What happens: think, like, continue, beg, remain, be · To what, where: journey, man, search, provisions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, giant, brother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 continue	mark
9	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 journey	nmod:poss
11	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 continue	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 begged	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 begged	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giant	det
15	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 begged	nsubj
16	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 begged	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 remain	mark
19	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begged	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remain	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 two	cc
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 day	conj
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 two	advmod
26	until	until	ADP	_	28 return	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 return	det
28	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 remain	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 brother	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brother	nmod:poss
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 return	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 away	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 away	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 away	cop
35	away	away	ADV	_	31 brother	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 search	case
37	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 away	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 provisions	case
39	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 search	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the man				now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	like	should	man						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	continue not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's journey					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
4	beg speech: request	past	the giant		man				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	the giant not said here				until the return of man's brother; day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	past	man's brother			search of provisions		away property	tree rules
7	journey		man						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	return		man's brother						nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent
9	search			provisions					nom search «act transitive»: of=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.

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