Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 65

And as he was cold, he lighted himself a fire, but at midnight the wind blew so sharply that in spite of his fire, he could not get warm.

Who acts: youth, wind · What happens: be, light, blow, not get, spite, fire · To what, where: youth, spite, fire

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, wind), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 lighted	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 cold	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lighted	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cold	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lighted	nsubj
8	lighted	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 lighted	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lighted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blew	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 blew	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 midnight	case
15	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blew	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wind	det
17	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blew	nsubj
18	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lighted	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 sharply	advmod
20	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	18 blew	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 get	mark
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 spite	case
23	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 fire	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fire	nmod:poss
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spite	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 spite	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 get	advmod
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 blew	advcl
32	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 get	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	youth				cold property	tree rules
2	light	past	youth	youth				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary fire=Product
3	blow	past	the wind			midnight	sharply property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
4	not get	could	youth		spite of youth's fire		warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	spite			youth's fire				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
6	fire		youth					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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