Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 73

Once in summer when he was working alone in the garden, the day was so warm he took his little cap off that the air might cool him.

Who acts: boy, day, air · What happens: work, be, take, cool · To what, where: little cap, 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, day, air), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 warm	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 summer	case
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 working	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 working	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 working	aux
7	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 summer	acl
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 working	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 working	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 warm	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 warm	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 warm	advmod
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 warm	acl:relcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cap	nmod:poss
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cap	amod
22	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	28 cool	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 cool	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 air	det
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cool	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 cool	aux
28	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 took	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 cool	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	past · progressive	boy		in the garden; alone property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme
2	is	past	the day		once, warm property	tree rules
3	take	past	boy	boy's little cap		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme
4	cool	might	the air	boy		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent 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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