Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 146

The man wanted to push him away; the youth, however, would not allow that, but thrust him off with all his strength, and seated himself again in his own place.

Who acts: man, youth · What happens: want, push away, not allow, thrust off, seat · To what, where: youth, man, that, own 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 (man, youth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 push	mark
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 push	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 push	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 youth	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 youth	det
10	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 allow	punct
12	however	however	ADV	_	16 allow	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 however	punct
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 allow	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 allow	advmod
16	allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	parataxis
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 allow	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thrust	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 thrust	cc
20	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 allow	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thrust	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	20 thrust	compound:prt
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 strength	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 strength	det:predet
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 strength	nmod:poss
26	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thrust	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seated	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seated	cc
29	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 seated	obj
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 seated	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 place	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 place	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 place	amod
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seated	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the man	the youth				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	push away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	man			away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not allow	would		that			however property	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary
4	thrust off	infinitive		man			with man's strength	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	seat	past	the man not said here	man	man's own place	again		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value 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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