Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 13

When the children looked around they saw they had been sleeping on the edge of a precipice, and would surely have fallen over if they had gone forward two steps further in the darkness.

Who acts: children · What happens: look around, see, sleep, fall over, go · To what, where: edge, darkness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 saw	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	ccomp
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sleeping	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sleeping	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sleeping	aux
11	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 edge	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 edge	det
14	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleeping	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 precipice	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 precipice	det
17	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 edge	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fallen	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fallen	cc
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fallen	aux
21	surely	surely	ADV	_	23 fallen	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 fallen	aux
23	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 looked	conj
24	over	over	ADV	_	23 fallen	advmod
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 gone	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gone	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 gone	aux
28	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 fallen	advcl
29	forward	forward	ADV	_	28 gone	advmod
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 steps	nummod
31	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 further	obl:unmarked
32	further	further	ADV	_	28 gone	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 darkness	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 darkness	det
35	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gone	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look around	past	the children			tree rules
2	see	past	children = child			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	sleep	past · perfect · progressive	children = child	the edge of a precipice		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall over	would · perfect	the children not said here		over, surely property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	children = child	the darkness	forward, further property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in darkness=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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