Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 117

Fortunately, he knocked against an empty snail-shell. "

Who acts: fellow · What happens: knock · To what, where: empty snail shell

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow), 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	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	4 knocked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fortunately	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	against	against	ADP	_	10 shell	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shell	det
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shell	amod
8	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shell	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snail	punct
10	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	fellow			a empty snail shell		fortunately property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against shell=Location

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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