Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 168

Then he took him out, and sat down by the fire and laid him on his breast and rubbed his arms that the blood might circulate again.

Who acts: man, blood · What happens: take out, sit down, lay, rub, circulate · To what, where: fire, man, breast, arms

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, blood), 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 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laid	cc
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laid	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 breast	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 breast	nmod:poss
18	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rubbed	cc
20	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rubbed	obj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 circulate	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 blood	det
25	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 circulate	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 circulate	aux
27	circulate	circulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 rubbed	advcl
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 circulate	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past	man	fire		then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	sit down	past					by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	lay	past		man	man's breast			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on breast=Destination
4	rub	past		man's arms				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
5	circulate	might	the blood			again		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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