Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 147

At these words in came a man who was taller than all the others, and looked more horrible; but he was very old and had a long white beard. "

Who acts: man · What happens: come, be, look, have · To what, where: words, long white beard

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 (man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 came	case
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taller	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 taller	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taller	cop
10	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 came	parataxis
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 others	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 others	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 others	det
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taller	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 horrible	advmod
19	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	xcomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 old	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 old	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 old	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 old	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 old	advmod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 beard	det
29	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beard	amod
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beard	amod
31	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past			this words		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location
2	is	past	a man			than all others; tall property	tree rules
3	look	past				horrible property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	man			old property	tree rules
5	have	past		a long white beard			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient

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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