Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 190

The old man placed himself near and wanted to look on, and his white beard hung down.

Who acts: old man, white beard · What happens: place, want, look on, hang down · To what, where: man

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 (old man, white beard), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 placed	nsubj
4	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 placed	obj
6	near	near	ADV	_	4 placed	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 placed	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 look	mark
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 look	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hung	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beard	nmod:poss
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 beard	amod
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hung	nsubj
17	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 placed	conj
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 hung	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	place	past	the old man	man	near property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	want	past	the old man not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	look on not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	hang down	participle	man's white beard			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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