Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 68

Then he stoked the fire, blew it, and set them all round it to warm themselves.

Who acts: wind, sons · What happens: stoke, blow, set, round, warm · To what, where: fire, seven, sons

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), 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	3 stoked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stoked	nsubj
3	stoked	stoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stoked	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 blew	punct
7	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stoked	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 blew	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 set	cc
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stoked	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 round	nsubj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 round	advmod
14	round	round	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 set	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 round	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 warm	mark
17	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 round	advcl
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 warm	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stoked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stoke	past	wind	the fire	then		tree rules
2	blow	past	wind not said here	seven			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	set	infinitive	wind not said here				tree rules
4	round	present	sons = son	seven		all property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	warm	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here	sons = son			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

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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