Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 49

They sprang through the hoop, indeed, but so clumsily that they fell, breaking their arms and legs.

Who acts: brothers · What happens: spring, fall, break · To what, where: hoop, arms

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 (brothers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 hoop	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hoop	det
5	hoop	hoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 indeed	punct
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 sprang	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 clumsily	advmod
11	clumsily	clumsily	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 fell	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 breaking	punct
16	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fell	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arms	nmod:poss
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 breaking	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 legs	cc
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 arms	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	past	brothers = brother		the hoop	indeed property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hoop=Trajectory
2	fall	past	brothers = brother			clumsily property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	gerund	brothers = brother not said here	brothers's arms and legs			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arm=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: «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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