Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 53

And as he still bent down more and more while he was doing so, and trying to look straight into the eyes, his long hair fell down from his shoulders into the water.

Who acts: boy, long hair · What happens: bend down, do, try, look, fall down · To what, where: shoulders

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, long hair), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 bent	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 bent	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bent	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 bent	advmod
5	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 bent	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 bent	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 more	cc
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 more	conj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 doing	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 doing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 doing	aux
13	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 bent	advcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	13 doing	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trying	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 trying	cc
17	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 doing	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 look	mark
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 trying	xcomp
20	straight	straight	ADV	_	19 look	advmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 eyes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 eyes	det
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 look	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hair	nmod:poss
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hair	amod
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 trying	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 shoulders	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shoulders	nmod:poss
32	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fell	obl
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fell	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend down	past	boy		still	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past · progressive	boy				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	try	gerund	boy not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here			into the eyes; straight property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=Theme
5	fall down	past	boy's long hair	boy's shoulders		into the water; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from shoulder=Initial_Location into 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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