Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 127

Then he took hold of his left leg with both his hands, and pulled away so hard that his right came off in the struggle, and he hopped away howling terribly.

Who acts: man, right · What happens: take, pull away, come off, hop away, howl, hold · To what, where: hold, struggle, left leg

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, right), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 leg	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 leg	nmod:poss
7	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leg	amod
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hands	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pulled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pulled	cc
15	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 pulled	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 hard	advmod
18	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 pulled	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 right	nmod:poss
21	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pulled	advcl
23	off	off	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 struggle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 struggle	det
26	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hopped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hopped	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 hopped	nsubj
30	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 hopped	advmod
32	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 hopped	advcl
33	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	32 howling	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	man	hold of man's left leg		then	with man's hands	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	pull away	past	man not said here				away, hard property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come off	past	man's right		the struggle		off property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in struggle=Location
4	hop away	past	man				away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	howl	gerund	man not said here				terribly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hold			man's left leg				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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