Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 41

From the young toads around the old toad, the young man seized one at hazard, and placed it in the scooped-out turnip, but hardly was it there when the most astounding change occurred, for the toad was transformed into a wondrously lovely maiden, the turnip became an elegant carriage, and the six mice were turned into handsome horses.

Who acts: young man, hazard, astounding change, turnip · What happens: seize, place, scoop, be, occur, transform · To what, where: one, hazard, scooped out turnip, toad, elegant carriage, six mice

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, hazard, astounding change, turnip), 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	From	from	ADP	_	8 toad	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toads	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toads	amod
4	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 toad	nsubj
5	around	around	ADP	_	8 toad	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 toad	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toad	amod
8	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 toad	punct
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 seized	nsubj
13	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 seized	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 hazard	case
16	hazard	hazard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seized	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 placed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 placed	cc
19	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seized	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 placed	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	26 turnip	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 turnip	det
23	scooped	scoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 turnip	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 scooped	punct
25	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turnip	compound
26	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 occurred	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 occurred	cc
29	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	32 there	advmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 there	cop
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 there	nsubj
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 occurred	advmod
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 occurred	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 change	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 astounding	advmod
36	astounding	astounding	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 change	amod
37	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 occurred	nsubj
38	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seized	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 transformed	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 transformed	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 toad	det
42	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 transformed	nsubj:pass
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 transformed	aux:pass
44	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 occurred	parataxis
45	into	into	SCONJ	_	49 maiden	mark
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 maiden	det
47	wondrously	wondrously	ADV	_	49 maiden	advmod
48	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 maiden	amod
49	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 transformed	advcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 became	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 turnip	det
52	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 became	nsubj
53	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 maiden	conj
54	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 carriage	det
55	elegant	elegant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 carriage	amod
56	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 became	xcomp
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 turned	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 turned	cc
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 mice	det
60	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	61 mice	nummod
61	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 turned	nsubj
62	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	63 turned	aux:pass
63	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 transformed	conj
64	into	into	ADP	_	66 horses	case
65	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 horses	amod
66	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	63 turned	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	the young man	one	hazard	from the old toad	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from toad=Source
2	place	past	the young man not said here	hazard	the scooped out turnip		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in turnip=Destination
3	scoop	participle					vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	hazard			hardly, there property	tree rules
5	occur	past	the astounding change				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	transform	past · passive		the toad			vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	become	past	the turnip	a elegant carriage			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	turn	past · passive		the six mice		into handsome horses result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into horse=Result

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.

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