Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 26

The sexton, however, remained standing motionless that the boy might think he was a ghost.

Who acts: sexton, boy · What happens: remain, stand, think, be · To what, where: ghost · 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 (sexton, boy), 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	2 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remained	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sexton	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 remained	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 remained	xcomp
8	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 standing	xcomp
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 think	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 think	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 motionless	advcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ghost	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ghost	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ghost	det
17	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 think	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the sexton		however property	tree rules
2	stand	gerund	the sexton not said here		motionless property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	might	the boy			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	boy	a ghost		tree rules

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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