Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 42

However, he still felt very hungry, and the salad tasted very nice; so he ate on till he came to another kind of salad, and scarcely had he tasted it when he felt another change come over him, and soon saw that he was lucky enough to have found his old shape again.

Who acts: cloud, salad, change · What happens: feel, taste, eat on, come, have, see · To what, where: kind, salad, change, old shape · 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 (cloud, salad, change), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 felt	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 felt	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 felt	advmod
5	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hungry	advmod
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 felt	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tasted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tasted	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 salad	det
11	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tasted	nsubj
12	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 felt	conj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 nice	advmod
14	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tasted	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 ate	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ate	nsubj
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 felt	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 ate	compound:prt
20	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ate	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 kind	case
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 kind	det
25	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 salad	case
27	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kind	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
30	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	31 had	advmod
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 felt	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tasted	nsubj
33	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	ccomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tasted	obj
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 felt	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 felt	nsubj
37	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tasted	advcl
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	39 change	det
39	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 felt	obj
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 felt	xcomp
41	over	over	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 come	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 saw	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 saw	cc
45	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 saw	advmod
46	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 felt	conj
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 lucky	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 lucky	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 lucky	cop
50	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 saw	ccomp
51	enough	enough	ADV	_	50 lucky	advmod
52	to	to	PART	_	54 found	mark
53	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 found	aux
54	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 lucky	xcomp
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 shape	nmod:poss
56	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 shape	amod
57	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 found	obj
58	again	again	ADV	_	54 found	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	cloud			still	however, hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	taste	past	the salad				nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	eat on	past	cloud					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	cloud		another kind of salad			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kind=Initial_Location
5	have	past	cloud not said here				scarcely property	tree rules
6	taste	past	cloud	salad				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
7	feel	past	cloud	another change				tree rules
8	come	infinitive	another change not said here				over cloud	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over he=Initial_Location
9	see	past	cloud not said here				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	is	past	cloud				enough, lucky property	tree rules
11	find	to-infinitive · perfect	cloud not said here	cloud's old shape		again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Topic

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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