Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 120

Presently more men fell down the chimney, one after the other, who brought nine thigh-bones and two skulls, which they set up, and then they began to play at ninepins.

Who acts: more men, bones · What happens: fall down, bring, set up, begin, play · To what, where: chimney, nine thigh bones, ninepins

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 (more men, bones), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 chimney	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chimney	det
7	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fell	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 other	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 brought	nsubj
15	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
16	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 bones	nummod
17	thigh	thigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bones	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 thigh	punct
19	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 brought	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 skulls	cc
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 skulls	nummod
22	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bones	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 set	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	nsubj
26	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 bones	acl:relcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 set	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 began	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 began	nsubj
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 play	mark
34	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 ninepins	case
36	ninepins	ninepin	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 play	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	more men	the chimney			one after the other obl; presently property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient chimney=Result
2	bring	past		nine thigh bones and two skulls				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
3	set up	past	bones = bone	nine thigh bones and two skulls				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient which=Result
4	begin	past	bones = bone			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	play	to-infinitive	bones = bone not said here		ninepins			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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