Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 33

Then they took a slender hazel-twig, using it upon his thick coat, and they laughed when he growled.

Who acts: children, visitor · What happens: take, use, laugh, growl · To what, where: slender hazel twig, twig

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, visitor), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 twig	det
5	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 twig	amod
6	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twig	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hazel	punct
8	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 using	punct
10	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 using	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 coat	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 coat	nmod:poss
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coat	amod
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 using	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laughed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 laughed	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 laughed	nsubj
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 growled	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 growled	nsubj
22	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 laughed	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	children = child	a slender hazel twig	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=Theme
2	use	gerund	children = child not said here	twig		upon visitor's thick coat	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	laugh	past	children = child				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	growl	past	visitor				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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