Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 61
The Giants were frightened, and, dreading he might kill them all, they ran away in a great hurry.
Who acts: hunters · What happens: frighten, dread, kill, run away · To what, where: Giants, hunters, great hurry
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 (hunters), 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 Giants | det |
| 2 | Giants | Giant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kill | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dreading | punct |
| 8 | dreading | dread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | aux |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 frightened | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hurry | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hurry | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hurry | amod |
| 21 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the Giants | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | dread | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | kill | might | hunters = hunter | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run away | past | hunters = hunter | a great hurry | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory |
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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