Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 113

When midnight came, a ringing and a rattling noise was heard, gentle at first and louder and louder by degrees; then there was a pause, and presently with a loud outcry half a man's body came down the chimney and fell at his feet. "

Who acts: midnight, body · What happens: come, hear, be, come down, fall · To what, where: ringing, rattling noise, pause, chimney, feet

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 (midnight, body), 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 came	advmod
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pause	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ringing	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ringing	det
6	ringing	ringing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heard	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 noise	det
9	rattling	rattling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noise	compound
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux:pass
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ringing	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gentle	punct
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ringing	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 first	case
16	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 gentle	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 louder	cc
18	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 gentle	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 louder	cc
20	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 louder	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 degrees	case
22	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 louder	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 was	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 was	advmod
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pause	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pause	det
28	pause	pause	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 outcry	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 outcry	cc
31	presently	presently	ADV	_	35 outcry	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 outcry	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 outcry	det
34	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 outcry	amod
35	outcry	outcry	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pause	appos
36	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	40 body	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 man	det
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 body	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 man	case
40	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 came	nsubj
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 outcry	parataxis
42	down	down	ADV	_	41 came	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 chimney	det
44	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 came	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 fell	cc
46	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 came	conj
47	at	at	ADP	_	49 feet	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 feet	nmod:poss
49	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 fell	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 outcry	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 outcry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	midnight	a ringing			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past · passive		a rattling noise			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	is a	past		a pause			tree rules
4	come down	past	a man's body	the chimney		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	a man's body not said here		noise's feet		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=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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