Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 12

This put the little man in a great passion, and, snatching up in his anger a bag of cloth, he brought it down with a merciless swoop upon them.

Who acts: This, man · What happens: put, snatch up, bring down, anger · To what, where: little man, great passion, bag, anger

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, man), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 passion	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 passion	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 passion	amod
9	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snatching	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 snatching	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snatching	punct
13	snatching	snatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 put	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 snatching	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 anger	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 anger	nmod:poss
17	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snatching	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bag	det
19	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snatching	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 cloth	case
21	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bag	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brought	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	nsubj
24	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 brought	obj
26	down	down	ADP	_	24 brought	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 swoop	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 swoop	det
29	merciless	merciless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 swoop	amod
30	swoop	swoop	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 brought	obl
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 swoop	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	This	the little man	a great passion		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in passion=Destination
2	snatch up	gerund	This not said here	a bag of cloth	man's anger		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
3	bring down	past	man	bag		with a merciless swoop upon flies	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	anger		man				nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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