Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 64

Then the youth went to the gallows, sat down beneath it, and waited till evening came.

Who acts: youth, evening · What happens: go, sit down, wait, come · To what, where: gallows, tree

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 (youth, evening), 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 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 gallows	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gallows	det
7	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waited	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 waited	cc
15	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 waited	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	the youth	the gallows	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gallows=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	the youth not said here	tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location
3	wait	past	the youth not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	evening			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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