Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 67
And as he felt pity for them, he raised the ladder, and climbed up, unbound one of them after the other, and brought down all seven.
Who acts: wind · What happens: feel, raise, climb up, bring down · To what, where: pity, ladder, unbound one, seven
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 raised | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 felt | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 raised | advcl |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 raised | nsubj |
| 10 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ladder | det |
| 12 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raised | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 climbed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 climbed | cc |
| 15 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 raised | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 climbed | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 18 | unbound | unbound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 climbed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 climbed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 brought | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 brought | cc |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 raised | conj |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 brought | advmod |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 seven | advmod |
| 30 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 brought | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | wind | pity | for sons = son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pity=Location for they=Theme | |||
| 2 | raise | past | wind | the ladder | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | climb up | past | unbound one of sons | after the other | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring down | past | wind not said here | seven | down property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent seven=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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