Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 39

The boy placed himself by the brink of the well, and often saw a golden fish or a golden snake show itself therein, and took care that nothing fell in.

Who acts: boy, that · What happens: place, see, take, fall in · To what, where: boy, golden fish, care

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 (boy, that), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 placed	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 brink	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brink	det
7	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brink	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saw	cc
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 saw	advmod
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fish	det
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fish	amod
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 show	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 show	det
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 show	amod
21	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 show	compound
22	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fish	nmod
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	22 show	nmod:unmarked
24	therein	therein	ADV	_	14 saw	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	parataxis
28	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fell	nsubj
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 fell	nsubj
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 took	conj
32	in	in	ADV	_	31 fell	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	place	past	the boy	boy	by the brink of the well	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by brink=Destination
2	see	past	the boy not said here	a golden fish a golden snake show well	often, therein property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
3	take	past		care		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	fall in	past	that			vn occur-48.3 «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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