Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 139

The thieves took flight, and ran as if the Wild Huntsman were behind them, but as the maid could not see anything, she went to strike a light.

Who acts: thieves, Wild Huntsman, maid · What happens: take, run, be, not see, go, strike · To what, where: flight, anything, light

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 (thieves, Wild Huntsman, maid), 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 thieves	det
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 them	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 them	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Huntsman	det
11	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	12 Huntsman	flat
12	Huntsman	Huntsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 them	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 them	cop
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ran	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 see	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 maid	det
20	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 went	advcl
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 see	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 strike	mark
29	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 went	xcomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 light	det
31	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 strike	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	the thieves	flight		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
2	run	past	the thieves not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the Wild Huntsman		behind thieves = thief	tree rules
4	not see	could	the maid	anything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
5	go	past	maid			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	strike	to-infinitive	maid not said here	a light		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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