Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 56

All at once he heard a rustling, and as he looked round he perceived a stranger standing before him, dressed in a gray coat, who looked very stately, but had an ugly cloven foot. "

Who acts: need, stranger, gray coat · What happens: hear, look round, perceive, stand, dress, look · To what, where: rustling, stranger, gray coat, ugly cloven foot

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (need, stranger, gray coat), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 heard	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 heard	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rustling	det
7	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 looked	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 perceived	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 perceived	nsubj
15	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stranger	det
17	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 perceived	obj
18	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stranger	acl
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 standing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dressed	punct
22	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 standing	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 coat	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 coat	det
25	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 coat	amod
26	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dressed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looked	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 looked	nsubj
29	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 coat	acl:relcl
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 stately	advmod
31	stately	stately	ADV	_	29 looked	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 foot	det
36	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 foot	amod
37	cloven	cloven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 foot	amod
38	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	need	a rustling				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustling=Stimulus
2	look round	past	need					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	perceive	past	need	a stranger				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
4	stand	gerund	a stranger not said here			before need		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
5	dress	participle	a stranger not said here		a gray coat			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	look	past	a gray coat				stately property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	have	past	need not said here	a ugly cloven foot				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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