Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 52

But the time was long to him, and he looked at the reflection of his face on the surface of the water.

Who acts: time, boy · What happens: be, look · To what, where: 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 (time, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 long	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 long	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 reflection	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reflection	det
14	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 face	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 face	nmod:poss
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reflection	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 surface	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 surface	det
20	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 face	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 water	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 surface	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the time		boy			long property	tree rules
2	look	past	boy					at the reflection of boy's face on the surface of the water	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at reflection=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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