Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 30

This done, he hastened to the door, and was scarcely out before it struck twelve, and the door swung to so heavily that it carried away a piece of his heel.

Who acts: Prince, sound, door · What happens: do, hasten, be, strike, swing, carry away · To what, where: This, door, twelve, piece

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 (Prince, sound, door), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 done	nsubj:pass
2	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hastened	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 done	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hastened	nsubj
5	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hastened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 out	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 out	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 out	cop
12	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	13 out	advmod
13	out	out	ADV	_	5 hastened	parataxis
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 struck	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 struck	nsubj
16	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 out	advcl
17	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 struck	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 swung	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 swung	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 door	det
21	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swung	nsubj
22	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hastened	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 heavily	mark
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 heavily	advmod
25	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	22 swung	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 carried	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carried	nsubj
28	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swung	advcl
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 carried	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 piece	det
31	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carried	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 heel	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 heel	nmod:poss
34	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 piece	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	participle · passive		This			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	hasten	past	Prince		the door		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination
3	is	past				out, scarcely property	tree rules
4	strike	past	sound	twelve			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
5	swing	past	the door			heavily property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	carry away	past	sound	a piece of Prince's heel		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme

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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