Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 21

As soon as the boy reached the belfry, and turned himself round to seize the rope, he saw upon the stairs, near the sounding-hole, a white figure. "

Who acts: boy · What happens: reach, turn, seize, see · To what, where: belfry, boy, rope

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 (boy), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 reached	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	nsubj
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 belfry	det
8	belfry	belfry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reached	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 turned	cc
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 turned	obj
13	round	round	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 seize	mark
15	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 turned	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rope	det
17	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seize	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	parataxis
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 stairs	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stairs	det
23	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 saw	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hole	punct
25	near	near	ADP	_	29 hole	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hole	det
27	sounding	sounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hole	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 sounding	punct
29	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 figure	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 figure	det
32	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 figure	amod
33	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hole	appos
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 figure	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 figure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the boy	the belfry	soon property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent belfry=Theme
2	turn	past	the boy not said here	boy	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	seize	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	the rope		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme
4	see	past	boy		upon the stairs	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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