Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 69

They hurried up to see what it might be, and found that it was the dwarf. "

Who acts: dwarfs, stream · What happens: hurry up, see, be, find · To what, where: dwarf · 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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hurried	nsubj
2	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 hurried	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hurried	advcl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 be	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 be	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
9	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hurried	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 dwarf	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dwarf	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dwarf	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dwarf	det
17	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hurried	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hurry up	past	dwarfs = dwarf		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	might	stream		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
4	find	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	stream	the dwarf	tree rules

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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