Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 127

But he threw quilts and pillows up in the air, got out and said: ‘Now anyone who likes, may drive,’ and lay down by his fire, and slept till it was day.

Who acts: other, anyone, air · What happens: throw, pillow up, get out, say, like, drive · To what, where: quilts, air · Speech: someone speaks here

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, anyone, air), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 threw	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quilts	quilt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pillows	cc
6	pillows	pillow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pillows	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pillows	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 got	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 drive	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 drive	punct
18	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 drive	advmod
19	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 drive	nsubj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 likes	nsubj
21	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 anyone	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 likes	punct
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 drive	aux
24	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 ’	punct
26	’	'	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 drive	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
28	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 drive	conj
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 lay	compound:prt
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 fire	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fire	nmod:poss
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 slept	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 slept	cc
35	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
36	till	till	ADP	_	39 day	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 day	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 day	cop
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 slept	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	other	quilts				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quilt=Theme
2	pillow up	present	other not said here		the air			tree rules
3	get out	past	other not said here				out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	other not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	like	present						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	drive	may	anyone			now		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	'	infinitive	anyone not said here					tree rules
8	lay down	infinitive	anyone not said here				by other's fire	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by fire=Destination
9	sleep	past	other not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	air			till day		tree rules
11	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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