Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 100

They howled fearfully, and jumped upon his fire, and scattered it about as if they would extinguish it.

Who acts: chains, cold · What happens: howl, jump, scatter, extinguish, fire · To what, where: fire

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chains, cold), 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 howled	nsubj
2	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	2 howled	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 jumped	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 jumped	cc
6	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 howled	conj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fire	nmod:poss
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jumped	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 scattered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 scattered	cc
12	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 howled	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 scattered	obj
14	about	about	ADV	_	12 scattered	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 extinguish	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 extinguish	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 extinguish	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 extinguish	aux
19	extinguish	extinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 scattered	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 extinguish	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 howled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	howl	past	chains = chain			fearfully property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	jump	past	chains = chain not said here		cold's fire		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fire=Trajectory
3	scatter	past	chains = chain not said here	fire		about property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	extinguish	would	chains = chain	fire			vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	fire		cold				nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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