Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 51
On the third day, the boy sat by the well, and did not stir his finger, however much it hurt him.
Who acts: boy, well · What happens: sit, not stir, hurt · To what, where: finger, boy
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, well), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stir | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stir | cc |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stir | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 stir | advmod |
| 16 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sat | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 finger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stir | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hurt | punct |
| 20 | however | however | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 hurt | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hurt | nsubj |
| 23 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sat | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hurt | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the boy | day | by the well | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location | |||
| 2 | not stir | past · do-support | the boy not said here | boy's finger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus finger=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hurt | past | well | boy | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
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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