Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 4

The younger sat in a corner and listened with the rest of them, and could not imagine what they could mean.

Who acts: younger, listeners · What happens: sit, listen, not imagine, mean · To what, where: corner

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 (younger, listeners), 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 younger	det
2	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 corner	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 corner	det
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 listened	cc
8	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 rest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rest	det
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 listened	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rest	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 imagine	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 imagine	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 imagine	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 imagine	advmod
18	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 mean	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 mean	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 mean	aux
22	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 imagine	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the younger	a corner		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
2	listen	past	the younger not said here		with the rest of listeners	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	not imagine	could	the younger not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mean	could	listeners = listener			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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