Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 54

He raised himself up quickly, but the whole of the hair of his head was already golden and shone like the sun. You can imagine how terrified the poor boy was!

Who acts: boy, head, You, poor boy · What happens: raise up, be, shine, imagine · 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 (boy, head, You, poor 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 raised	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 raised	compound:prt
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 raised	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whole	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 whole	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 whole	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 raised	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 hair	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hair	det
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 imagine	obl
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 golden	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 golden	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 golden	cop
17	already	already	ADV	_	18 golden	advmod
18	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 imagine	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shone	cc
20	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 golden	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 sun.	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun.	det
23	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shone	obl
24	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 imagine	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 imagine	aux
26	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 whole	parataxis
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 terrified	advmod
28	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 imagine	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 boy	det
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 boy	amod
31	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 terrified	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 terrified	cop
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise up	past	boy	boy	quickly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	is	past	boy's head		golden property	tree rules
3	shine	participle	boy's head not said here		like the sun.	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	imagine	can	You		of the hair	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is	past	the poor boy		terrified property	tree rules

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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