Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 120

When he came back he fanned the embers of his fire again and warmed himself.

Who acts: other · What happens: come back, fan, warm, fire · To what, where: embers, other

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 (other), 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	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fanned	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fanned	nsubj
6	fanned	fan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 embers	det
8	embers	ember	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fanned	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fire	nmod:poss
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 embers	nmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	6 fanned	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 warmed	cc
14	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fanned	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 warmed	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fanned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come back	past	other			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fan	past	other	the embers of other's fire	again	tree rules
3	warm	past	other not said here	other		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
4	fire		other			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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