Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 33

Now this rock belonged to fierce giants who lived upon it; and as he saw three of them striding about, he thought to himself, ‘I can only save myself by feigning to be asleep’; so he laid himself down as if he were in a sound sleep.

Who acts: rock, fierce giants, sleep, three, I · What happens: belong, live, see, stride, think, save · To what, where: rock, three, sleep, myself, sound sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, fierce giants, sleep, three), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 belonged	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belonged	nsubj
4	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 giants	case
6	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giants	amod
7	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 belonged	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 giants	acl:relcl
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 saw	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 belonged	conj
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 saw	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 three	nmod
20	striding	stride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 saw	xcomp
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 striding	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 himself	case
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 thought	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 save	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 save	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 save	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 save	aux
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 save	advmod
32	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thought	ccomp
33	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 save	obj
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	35 feigning	mark
35	feigning	feign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 save	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	38 asleep	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 asleep	cop
38	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 feigning	xcomp
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 asleep	punct
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 laid	punct
41	so	so	ADV	_	43 laid	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 laid	nsubj
43	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 belonged	conj
44	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 laid	obj
45	down	down	ADP	_	43 laid	compound:prt
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 sleep	mark
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 sleep	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 sleep	nsubj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 sleep	cop
50	in	in	ADP	_	53 sleep	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 sleep	det
52	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sleep	compound
53	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 laid	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 belonged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	past	this rock				now	to fierce giants	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	fierce giants			rock			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
3	see	past	sleep	three of giants					tree rules
4	stride	gerund	three of giants not said here					about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	sleep		sleep				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	save	can	I	myself					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
7	feign	gerund	I not said here						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	is	to-infinitive	I not said here					asleep property	tree rules
9	lay down	past	sleep	sleep					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result
10	is	past	sleep			a sound sleep			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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