Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 167

‘Wait,’ said he, ‘I will warm you a little,’ and went to the fire and warmed his hand and laid it on the dead man’s face, but he remained cold.

Who acts: man, I · What happens: wait, say, warm, go, lay, remain · To what, where: you, fire, hand, face · 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 (man, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
2	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 warm	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 warm	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 warm	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 warm	aux
11	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 warm	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 warm	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 warm	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 warm	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 fire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fire	det
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 warmed	cc
23	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 warmed	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laid	cc
27	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 warmed	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laid	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	34 face	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 face	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 man	case
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laid	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 remained	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 remained	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 remained	nsubj
38	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
39	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 remained	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	warm	future	I	you		a little obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	go	past	man not said here		the fire		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fire=Initial_Location
5	warm	past	man not said here	man's hand			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	lay	past	man not said here	hand	the dead man's face		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on face=Destination
7	remain	past	man			cold property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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