Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 32

Before long they were all quite good friends, and the children began to play with their unlooked-for visitor, pulling his thick fur, or placing their feet on his back, or rolling him over and over.

Who acts: children · What happens: be, begin, play, pull, place, roll · To what, where: good friends, thick fur, feet, back, visitor

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	Before	before	ADP	_	2 long	case
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 friends	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 friends	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 friends	advmod
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 friends	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 friends	amod
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 long	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 long	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 play	mark
15	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	21 visitor	mark
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 visitor	nmod:poss
18	unlooked	unlooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 visitor	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 visitor	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 visitor	case
21	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 play	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pulling	punct
23	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 play	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fur	nmod:poss
25	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fur	amod
26	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pulling	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 placing	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 placing	cc
29	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 pulling	conj
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 feet	nmod:poss
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 placing	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 back	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 back	nmod:poss
34	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 placing	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rolling	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 rolling	cc
37	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 placing	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 rolling	obj
39	over	over	ADV	_	37 rolling	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 over	cc
41	over	over	ADV	_	39 over	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	children = child	good friends		all property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the children				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive	the children not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pull	gerund	the children not said here	visitor's thick fur			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Theme
5	place	gerund	the children not said here	children's feet	visitor's back		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on back=Destination
6	roll	gerund	the children not said here	visitor		over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

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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