Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 68

As they were drawing near the water they perceived something, looking like a large grasshopper, springing towards the stream, as if it were going in.

Who acts: dwarfs, stream · What happens: draw, perceive, look, spring, go in · To what, where: water, something, stream

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 (dwarfs, stream), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 drawing	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drawing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drawing	aux
4	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drawing	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 perceived	nsubj
9	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 water	acl:relcl
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 perceived	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 drawing	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 grasshopper	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 grasshopper	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grasshopper	amod
16	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 springing	punct
18	springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 drawing	conj
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 stream	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stream	det
21	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 springing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 going	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 going	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 going	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 going	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 going	aux
27	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 springing	conj
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 going	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drawing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past · progressive	dwarfs = dwarf		the water		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	perceive	past	dwarfs = dwarf	something			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	look	gerund	dwarfs = dwarf not said here			like a large grasshopper	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	spring	gerund	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		the stream		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards stream=Destination
5	go in a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	stream				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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