Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 144

When he had done that and looked round again, the two pieces were joined together, and a hideous man was sitting in his place.

Who acts: half, hideous man · What happens: do, look round, join, sit · To what, where: that, two pieces, place

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 (half, hideous man), 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	4 done	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 looked	cc
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	conj
8	round	round	ADV	_	7 looked	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 joined	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pieces	det
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pieces	nummod
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 joined	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 joined	aux:pass
15	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 done	parataxis
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 joined	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sitting	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sitting	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sitting	aux
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 joined	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 place	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 place	nmod:poss
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	half	that		again		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	look round	past	half not said here				round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	join	past · passive		the two pieces			together property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	sit	past · progressive	a hideous man		half's place			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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