Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 75

Those fellows up there did not open their mouths, and were so stupid that they let the few old rags which they had on their bodies get burnt.’

Who acts: fellows, mouths, rags, few old rags · What happens: not open, be, let, have, get · To what, where: mouths, few old rags, bodies

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 (fellows, mouths, rags, few old 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 fellows	det
2	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 open	nsubj
3	up	up	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 fellows	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 open	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 open	advmod
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouths	nmod:poss
9	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 open	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stupid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stupid	cc
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stupid	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 stupid	advmod
14	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 open	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 let	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	nsubj
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stupid	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rags	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rags	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rags	amod
21	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 get	nsubj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 had	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rags	acl:relcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 bodies	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bodies	nmod:poss
27	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obl
28	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 let	ccomp
29	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 get	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 open	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not open	past · do-support	that fellows	rags's mouths			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2	is	past	that fellows not said here			stupid property	tree rules
3	let	past	mouths = mouth				tree rules
4	have	past	rags = rag	the few old rags	rags's bodies		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
5	get	present	the few old rags			burnt property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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