Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 124

When he was just going to shut his eyes, however, the bed began to move of its own accord, and went over the whole of the castle.

Who acts: other, bed · What happens: go, shut, begin, move · To what, where: eyes, whole

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, bed), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:2350): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 going	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 began	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shut	mark
7	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shut	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
11	however	however	ADV	_	15 began	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 however	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bed	det
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 move	mark
17	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 accord	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 accord	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 accord	amod
21	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 move	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 began	conj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 whole	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 whole	det
27	whole	whole	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 castle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 castle	det
30	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whole	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	other				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shut	to-infinitive	other not said here	other's eyes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	begin	past	the bed			however property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	move	to-infinitive	the bed not said here			of bed's own accord	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme of accord=Trajectory
5	go	past	the bed not said here		the whole of the castle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over whole=Initial_Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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