Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 45

It had been felled, and towards the roots they noticed something skipping and springing, which they could not make out, as it was sometimes hidden in the grasses.

Who acts: sticks · What happens: fell, notice, skip, spring, not make out, hide · To what, where: ground, something, grasses

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 (sticks), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 felled	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felled	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 felled	aux:pass
4	felled	fell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 noticed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 noticed	cc
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 roots	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roots	det
9	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 noticed	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 noticed	nsubj
11	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felled	conj
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 noticed	obj
13	skipping	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 something	acl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 springing	cc
15	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 skipping	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 make	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 make	advmod
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 skipping	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 make	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hidden	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 hidden	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hidden	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hidden	aux:pass
27	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 hidden	advmod
28	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 make	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 grasses	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grasses	det
31	grasses	grass	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hidden	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fell	past · perfect · passive		ground			tree rules
2	notice	past	sticks = stick	something		towards the roots	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	skip	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spring	gerund					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not make out	could	sticks = stick				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
6	hide	past · passive		ground	the grasses	sometimes property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in grass=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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