Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 170

After a short time the dead man became warm too, and began to move.

Who acts: dead man · What happens: become, begin, move

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 (dead 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
10	too	too	ADV	_	9 warm	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 move	mark
15	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the dead man	time	warm property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	the dead man not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	move	to-infinitive	the dead man not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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