Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 8

They constantly ran together in the woods, collecting ripe berries; but not a single animal would have injured them; quite the reverse, they all felt the greatest esteem for the young creatures.

Who acts: children · What happens: run, collect, not injure, feel · To what, where: woods, ripe berries, single animal, greatest esteem

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
2	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 collecting	punct
9	collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 ran	advcl
10	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 berries	amod
11	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 collecting	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 injured	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 injured	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 injured	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 animal	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animal	amod
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 injured	nsubj:pass
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 injured	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 injured	aux
20	injured	injure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 injured	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct
23	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	25 reverse	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 reverse	det
25	reverse	reverse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 felt	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 felt	nsubj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 felt	advmod
29	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 esteem	det
31	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 esteem	amod
32	esteem	esteem	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 felt	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 creatures	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 creatures	det
35	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 creatures	amod
36	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 felt	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	children = child		the woods	constantly, together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Trajectory
2	collect	gerund	children = child not said here	ripe berries			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
3	not injure	would · perfect · passive		a single animal			tree rules
4	feel	past	children = child	the greatest esteem		for the young creatures	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent esteem=Location for creature=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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