Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 11
And then the door was flung open, and the young man found himself facing a big toad sitting in the centre of a number of young toads.
Who acts: young man, man, big toad · What happens: fling, find, face, sit · To what, where: door, man, big toad, centre
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, big toad), 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 | _ | 6 flung | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 flung | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flung | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flung | aux:pass |
| 6 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 flung | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flung | parataxis |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 found | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 toad | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 toad | amod |
| 18 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 facing | obj |
| 19 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 toad | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 centre | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 centre | det |
| 22 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sitting | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 number | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 number | det |
| 25 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 centre | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 toads | case |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 toads | amod |
| 28 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 number | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past · passive | the door | then | open property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | the young man | man | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | face | gerund | man not said here | a big toad | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toad=Destination | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | a big toad not said here | the centre of a number of young toads | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location |
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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/10/11/