Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 104

When night was drawing near, the youth went up and made himself a bright fire in one of the rooms, placed the cutting-board and knife beside it, and seated himself by the turning-lathe.

Who acts: youth · What happens: draw, go up, make, place, seat · To what, where: youth, cutting board

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 drawing	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drawing	obl:unmarked
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drawing	aux
4	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 went	advcl
5	near	near	ADV	_	4 drawing	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drawing	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youth	det
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 made	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fire	det
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fire	amod
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 made	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 rooms	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rooms	det
21	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 placed	punct
23	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 board	det
25	cutting	cutting	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 board	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 cutting	punct
27	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 knife	cc
29	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 board	conj
30	beside	beside	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 knife	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 seated	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 seated	cc
34	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 seated	obj
36	by	by	ADP	_	40 lathe	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 lathe	det
38	turning	turning	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lathe	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 turning	punct
40	lathe	lathe	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seated	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past · progressive	the youth not said here		night	near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go up	past	the youth				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	make	past	the youth not said here	youth		in one of the rooms	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary fire=Product
4	place	past	the youth not said here	the cutting board and knife beside knife			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme
5	seat	past	the youth not said here	youth		by the turning lathe	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value

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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