Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 59

As soon as the dwarf felt himself free he laid hold of a bag which lay amongst the roots of the tree, and which was full of gold, and lifted it up, grumbling to himself: ‘Uncouth people, to cut off a piece of my fine beard.

Who acts: end, bag · What happens: feel, lay, hold, lie, be, lift up · To what, where: end, roots, gold, piece

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, bag), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 felt	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 dwarf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarf	det
5	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	obl
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 felt	obj
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 felt	xcomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laid	nsubj
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	advcl
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 laid	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bag	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bag	det
14	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	obl
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bag	acl:relcl
17	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	19 roots	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roots	det
19	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lay	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roots	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 full	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 full	cc
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 full	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 full	cop
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 felt	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 full	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lifted	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lifted	cc
32	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 felt	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lifted	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 lifted	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grumbling	punct
36	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 lifted	advcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 himself	case
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 grumbling	obl
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 people	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 people	punct
41	Uncouth	uncouth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 people	amod
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 felt	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 cut	punct
44	to	to	PART	_	45 cut	mark
45	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 felt	conj
46	off	off	ADP	_	45 cut	compound:prt
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 piece	det
48	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 cut	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 beard	case
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 beard	nmod:poss
51	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 beard	amod
52	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 piece	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past		end			as the dwarf; Uncouth people obl; free, soon property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	lay	past	end					tree rules
3	hold	infinitive	end not said here				of a bag	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past	a bag			the roots of the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst root=Location
5	is	past					of gold; full property	tree rules
6	lift up	past		gold				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	grumble speech: other	gerund			end			vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
8	cut off	to-infinitive		a piece of my fine beard				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector piece=Eventuality

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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