Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 60

Then a man approached who heard this conversation which the youth was holding with himself, and when they had walked a little farther to where they could see the gallows, the man said to him: ‘Look, there is the tree where seven men have married the ropemaker’s daughter, and are now learning how to fly.

Who acts: man, youth, talers, tree · What happens: approach, hear, hold, walk, see, say · To what, where: conversation, gallows, youth, seven men · 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 (man, youth, talers, tree), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 approached	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approached	nsubj
4	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 approached	ccomp
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 conversation	det
8	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 holding	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 holding	aux
13	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 conversation	acl:relcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 holding	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 walked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 walked	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 walked	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 walked	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 walked	aux
21	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 heard	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 farther	obl
24	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 walked	advmod
25	to	to	SCONJ	_	29 see	mark
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 see	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 walked	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gallows	det
31	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 see	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gallows	acl:relcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	obl
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 Look	punct
39	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 Look	punct
40	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 approached	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 is	punct
42	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 is	expl
43	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 Look	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tree	det
45	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 is	nsubj
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 married	advmod
47	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 men	nummod
48	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 married	nsubj:pass
49	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 married	aux
50	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 tree	acl:relcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 ropemaker	det
52	ropemaker	ropemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 daughter	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 ropemaker	case
54	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 married	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 learning	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 learning	cc
57	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 learning	aux
58	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 learning	advmod
59	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 approached	advcl
60	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	62 fly	advmod
61	to	to	PART	_	62 fly	mark
62	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 learning	xcomp
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	past	a man				then		tree rules
2	hear	past		this conversation					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus
3	hold	past · progressive	the youth	this conversation				with youth	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
4	walk	past · perfect	talers = taler					far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	could	talers = taler	the gallows					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gallows=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	the man	the gallows not said here	youth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gallows=Topic to he=Recipient
7	look	infinitive	a man not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	be	present	the tree			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	marry	present · perfect · passive		seven men					tree rules
10	learn	present · progressive	a man not said here				now		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	fly	to-infinitive	a man not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP 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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