Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 66
And as the wind knocked the hanged men against each other, and they moved backwards and forwards, he thought to himself: ‘If you shiver below by the fire, how those up above must freeze and suffer!’
Who acts: wind, sons, you, those · What happens: knock, move, think, shiver, freeze, suffer · To what, where: hanged men, each, wind
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 (wind, sons, you, those), 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 | _ | 21 thought | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 knocked | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knocked | nsubj |
| 5 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 thought | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 7 | hanged | hanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knocked | obj |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 men | nmod |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 moved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 moved | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 moved | nsubj |
| 15 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knocked | conj |
| 16 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 15 moved | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 forwards | cc |
| 18 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 16 backwards | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knocked | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 himself | case |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 thought | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 shiver | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 shiver | punct |
| 26 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 shiver | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 shiver | nsubj |
| 28 | shiver | shiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thought | parataxis |
| 29 | below | below | ADV | _ | 28 shiver | advmod |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 fire | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fire | det |
| 32 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shiver | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 freeze | punct |
| 34 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 freeze | advmod |
| 35 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 freeze | nsubj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 those | compound:prt |
| 37 | above | above | ADP | _ | 36 up | fixed |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 freeze | aux |
| 39 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 shiver | conj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 suffer | cc |
| 41 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 freeze | conj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | the wind | the hanged men | each | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent man=Theme against each=Destination | |||
| 2 | move | past | sons = son | backwards property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | wind | wind | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shiver a condition, not said to happen | present | you | by the fire; below property | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | freeze | must | those | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | suffer | infinitive | those not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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