Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 71
The dead men, however, did not hear, but were quite silent, and let their rags go on burning.
Who acts: dead men, rags · What happens: not hear, be, let, go, burn
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 (dead men, rags), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 hear | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hear | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hear | advmod |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 silent | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 silent | cc |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 silent | cop |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 silent | advmod |
| 14 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hear | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hear | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rags | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | nsubj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | conj |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 burning | mark |
| 22 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 go | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · do-support | the dead men | however property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the dead men not said here | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the dead men not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | present | sons's rags | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | burn | gerund | sons's rags not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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