Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 74

The stones, however, did them no harm, for the fellows called out, "Ah! it will soon be morning, for the wind is shaking down the chestnuts."

Who acts: stones, harm, wind · What happens: do, call out, be, shake down · To what, where: thieves, fellows, morning, chestnuts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stones, harm, wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stones	det
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stones	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	obj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 harm	det
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fellows	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 fellows	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fellows	det
13	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 did	parataxis
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 fellows	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 called	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 morning	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 morning	punct
18	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	24 morning	discourse
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 Ah	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 morning	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 morning	aux
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 morning	advmod
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 morning	cop
24	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obl:unmarked
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 shaking	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 shaking	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shaking	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 shaking	aux
30	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 did	parataxis
31	down	down	ADP	_	33 chestnuts	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chestnuts	det
33	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 shaking	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 shaking	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 shaking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the stones	thieves = thief	however property	tree rules
2	call out speech: express	participle		the fellows not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	future	harm	morning	soon property	tree rules
4	shake down in a quote	present · progressive	the wind	the chestnuts		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chestnut=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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