Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 126

When the men heard these words spoken by the Tailor, a great fear came over them, and they ran away as if wild huntsmen were following them; neither afterwards dared any man venture to oppose him.

Who acts: men, great fear, words, wild huntsmen · What happens: hear, speak, come, run away, follow, dare · To what, where: words, man venture, fear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, great fear, words, wild huntsmen), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	advcl
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obj
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 words	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Tailor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tailor	det
10	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoken	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fear	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fear	amod
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	over	over	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 ran	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 following	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 following	mark
25	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 huntsmen	amod
26	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 following	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 following	aux
28	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ran	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 following	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 dared	punct
31	neither	neither	ADV	_	33 dared	advmod
32	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	33 dared	advmod
33	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 came	conj
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 venture	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 venture	compound
36	venture	venture	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dared	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 oppose	mark
38	oppose	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 dared	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 oppose	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the men	this words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	participle		this words not said here	by the Tailor	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	a great fear		over words = word	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over they=Initial_Location
4	run away	past	words = word		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	follow	past · progressive	wild huntsmen	words = word		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	dare	participle	a great fear not said here	any man venture	afterwards, neither property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venture=Recipient
7	oppose	to-infinitive	a great fear not said here	fear		vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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