Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 55

When she opened her mouth to tell her mother what had happened to her in the forest, a toad jumped out of her mouth at each word, so that every one fled away from her in horror.

Who acts: girl, toad, one · What happens: open, tell, happen, jump out, flee away · To what, where: mouth, mother, girl, forest, word, horror · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, toad, one), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 opened	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 jumped	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouth	nmod:poss
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 opened	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happened	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 happened	aux
12	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 tell	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 happened	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 happened	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 toad	det
20	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 jumped	nsubj
21	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nmod:poss
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 jumped	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 word	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 word	det
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 jumped	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fled	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 fled	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fled	nsubj
34	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 jumped	conj
35	away	away	ADV	_	34 fled	advmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fled	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 horror	case
39	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fled	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	girl	girl's mouth				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	girl not said here		girl's mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect			girl	the forest		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
4	jump out	past	a toad	girl's mouth		each word		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme at word=Trajectory
5	flee away	past	every one			horror	from girl; away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial_Location

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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