Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 42

Finding everything still, he marched into the kitchen, and groped about till he found a match in order to light a candle; and then, espying the glittering fiery eyes of the cat, he mistook them for live coals, and held the match to them to light it.

Who acts: cock · What happens: find, march, grope, light, espy, mistake · To what, where: everything, kitchen, match, order, candle, glittering

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 (cock), 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	Finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 marched	advcl
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Finding	obj
3	still	still	ADV	_	1 Finding	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Finding	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marched	nsubj
6	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marched	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 groped	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 groped	cc
12	groped	grope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 marched	conj
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 groped	advmod
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 found	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 groped	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 match	det
18	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 order	case
20	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 found	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 light	mark
22	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 found	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 candle	det
24	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 light	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 espying	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 espying	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 espying	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 espying	punct
29	espying	espy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 marched	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 glittering	det
31	glittering	glittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 espying	obj
32	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 eyes	amod
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 espying	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 cat	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cat	det
36	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eyes	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mistook	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 mistook	nsubj
39	mistook	mistake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 marched	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 mistook	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	43 coals	case
42	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 coals	amod
43	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 mistook	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 held	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 held	cc
46	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 marched	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 match	det
48	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 held	obj
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 them	case
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 held	obl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 light	mark
52	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 held	advcl
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 light	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	cock not said here	everything			still		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
2	march	past	cock					into the kitchen result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result
3	grope	past	cock not said here					about property	vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	cock	a match		order			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Topic
5	light	to-infinitive	cock not said here	a candle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product
6	espy	gerund	cock not said here	the glittering			then		tree rules
7	mistake	past	cock	eyes = eye				for live coals	tree rules
8	hold	past	cock not said here	the match	robbers = robber				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme
9	light	to-infinitive	cock not said here	match					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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