Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 133

Then he went to the innkeeper, who opened his eyes very wide, and said: ‘I never expected to see you alive again!

Who acts: other, innkeeper, I · What happens: go, open, say, not expect, see · To what, where: innkeeper, eyes, you · 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, innkeeper, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 innkeeper	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 innkeeper	det
6	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 opened	nsubj
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 innkeeper	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 opened	obj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 wide	advmod
13	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 opened	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 expected	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 expected	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 expected	nsubj
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 expected	advmod
21	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 expected	xcomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 see	xcomp
26	again	again	ADV	_	23 see	advmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	other		the innkeeper	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to innkeeper=Initial_Location
2	open	past	the innkeeper	other's eyes				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	other not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not expect	past	I					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		again	alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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