Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 209

At night when the young king was sleeping, his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucket full of cold water with the gudgeons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl about him.

Who acts: young king, wife, little fishes · What happens: sleep, be, empty, sprawl · To what, where: bucket, water

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 (young king, wife, little fishes), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draw	obl
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sleeping	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleeping	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sleeping	aux
8	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 night	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draw	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 draw	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 draw	mark
14	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clothes	det
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 draw	obj
17	off	off	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 clothes	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 empty	cc
20	empty	empty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 draw	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bucket	det
22	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 empty	obj
23	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bucket	amod
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 water	amod
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 full	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 gudgeons	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gudgeons	det
29	gudgeons	gudgeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 empty	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 empty	obl
32	over	over	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 empty	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sprawl	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 sprawl	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fishes	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 fishes	amod
39	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 sprawl	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 sprawl	aux
41	sprawl	sprawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 draw	conj
42	about	about	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 sprawl	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 draw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · progressive	the young king					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	king's wife			night	draw property	tree rules
3	empty	infinitive	king's wife not said here	the bucket	water		with the gudgeons; over king	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient with gudgeon=Instrument
4	sprawl	would	the little fishes				about king	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about he=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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