Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 40
As he was thus sitting, his finger hurt him so violently that he involuntarily put it in the water.
Who acts: boy, finger · What happens: sit, hurt, put · To what, where: boy, care, water
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, finger), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 sitting | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hurt | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 finger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurt | nsubj |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hurt | obj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 violently | advmod |
| 12 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 9 hurt | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 put | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 15 | involuntarily | involuntarily | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | boy | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hurt | past | boy's finger | boy | violently property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | |||
| 3 | put | past | boy | care | the water | involuntarily property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in water=Destination |
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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