Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 45

By daybreak the boy was already sitting by the well and watching it.

Who acts: boy · What happens: sit, watch · To what, where: 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), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 daybreak	case
2	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sitting	aux
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 sitting	advmod
7	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 well	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 well	det
10	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sitting	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 watching	cc
12	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sitting	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 watching	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the boy					by daybreak; by the well	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by daybreak=Location
2	watch	gerund	the boy not said here	care					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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