Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 115

Then the ringing began afresh, and a roaring and howling was heard, and the other half fell down. "

Who acts: ringing, other half · What happens: begin, hear, fall down · To what, where: roaring

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 (ringing, other half), 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	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ringing	det
3	ringing	ringing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	afresh	afresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 roaring	det
9	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	nsubj:pass
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 howling	cc
11	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roaring	conj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux:pass
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 half	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 half	amod
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 fell	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the ringing		then	afresh property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	hear	past · passive		a roaring and howling			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	fall down	past	the other half			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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