Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 162

And just then it struck twelve and the old man vanished, leaving the youth in the dark. "

Who acts: poor, old man · What happens: strike, vanish, leave · To what, where: twelve, youth, dark

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 (poor, old 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 struck	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 struck	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 struck	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 struck	nsubj
5	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 struck	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 vanished	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vanished	nsubj
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 struck	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 leaving	punct
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 vanished	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 youth	det
15	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 dark	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dark	det
18	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 struck	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	strike	past	poor	twelve		then	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
2	vanish	past	the old man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	gerund	the old man not said here	the youth	the dark		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent youth=Theme in dark=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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