Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 106

Towards midnight he was about to poke his fire, and as he was blowing it, something cried suddenly from one corner: ‘Au, miau! how cold we are!’

Who acts: midnight, king, something, we · What happens: be, poke, blow, cry, fire · To what, where: fire, shudder, one corner

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 (midnight, king, something, we), 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	Towards	towards	ADV	_	2 midnight	advmod
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 about	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 about	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 poke	mark
7	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fire	nmod:poss
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poke	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 blowing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 blowing	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 blowing	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 blowing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 blowing	aux
15	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 about	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 blowing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct
18	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 cried	nsubj
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	conj
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 cried	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 corner	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 corner	nummod
23	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cried	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Au	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Au	punct
26	Au	au	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 corner	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 miau	punct
28	miau	miau	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Au	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 Au	punct
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 cold	advmod
31	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cried	obl
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 cold	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cold	cop
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	midnight			about property	tree rules
2	poke	to-infinitive	midnight not said here	king's fire			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	blow	past · progressive	king	shudder			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	cry speech: express	past	something		one corner	suddenly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	we			cold property	tree rules
6	fire		king				nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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