Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 99

It is probable that he might have proceeded in the same complimentary manner, but suddenly a great growl was heard near by them, and a big black bear joined the party.

Who acts: sun, space, big black bear · What happens: be, proceed, hear, join · To what, where: same complimentary manner, great growl, party

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 (sun, space, big black bear), 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	3 probable	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 probable	cop
3	probable	probable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 proceeded	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 proceeded	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 proceeded	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 proceeded	aux
8	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 probable	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 manner	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 manner	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 manner	amod
12	complimentary	complimentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 manner	amod
13	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 proceeded	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 heard	cc
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	21 heard	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 growl	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 growl	amod
19	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	aux:pass
21	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 probable	parataxis
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 them	case
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 joined	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 joined	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bear	det
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bear	amod
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bear	amod
30	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 joined	nsubj
31	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 probable	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 party	det
33	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 joined	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 probable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	sun			probable property	tree rules
2	proceed	might · perfect	space		the same complimentary manner		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past · passive		a great growl		near maidens = maiden; suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4	join	past	a big black bear	the party			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient

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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