Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 13

When they could see to the bottom there lay a wild man whose body was brown like rusty iron, and whose hair hung over his face down to his knees.

Who acts: men, bottom, wild man, hair · What happens: see, lie, be, hang · To what, where: face

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, bottom, wild man, hair), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 see	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 lay	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lay	advmod
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brown	nsubj
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 body	nmod:poss
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brown	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brown	cop
16	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lay	ccomp
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 iron	case
18	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 iron	amod
19	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brown	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hung	cc
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 hair	nmod:poss
23	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	conj
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 face	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 face	nmod:poss
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
28	down	down	ADV	_	24 hung	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 knees	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 knees	nmod:poss
31	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 down	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	see	could	men = man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	lie	past	the bottom	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	a wild man		like rusty iron; brown property	tree rules
4	hang	past	hair	hair's face	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over face=Location

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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