Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 39
As soon as they had satisfied themselves, they put out the lights, and each once more sought out a resting-place to his own liking.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: satisfy, put out, seek out · To what, where: robbers, lights, each
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robbers), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 put | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 satisfied | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 satisfied | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | aux |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 put | advcl |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 satisfied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lights | det |
| 13 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sought | cc |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 sought | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 sought | advmod |
| 19 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 put | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sought | compound:prt |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 22 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 resting | punct |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sought | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 liking | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 liking | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 liking | amod |
| 28 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | past · perfect | robbers = robber | robbers = robber | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | put out | past | robbers = robber | the lights | soon property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal | |||
| 3 | seek out | participle · passive | each | once 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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