Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 11

But as he drew near home, his little boy was so glad to see him that he crept behind him, and laid fast hold of his legs, and looked up in his face and laughed.

Who acts: merchant, little boy · What happens: draw, be, see, creep, lay, look up · To what, where: home, merchant, fast hold, legs

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, little boy), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	32 looked	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 drew	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 looked	advcl
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glad	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 boy	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glad	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 glad	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 glad	advmod
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drew	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 glad	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 crept	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 crept	nsubj
19	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 see	advcl
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 crept	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laid	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 laid	cc
24	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
25	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hold	amod
26	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laid	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 legs	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 legs	nmod:poss
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hold	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 looked	cc
32	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 looked	compound:prt
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 face	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 face	nmod:poss
36	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 looked	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 laughed	cc
38	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 looked	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	merchant		home		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	merchant's little boy			glad property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	merchant's little boy not said here	merchant			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	creep	past	merchant			behind boy	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory
5	lay	past	merchant not said here	fast hold of boy's legs			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
6	look up	past				in boy's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme
7	laugh	past					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	hold			boy's legs			nom hold «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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