Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 28

Then the boy called out for the third time, but it produced no effect; so, making a spring, he threw the ghost down the stairs, so that it rolled ten steps, and then lay motionless in a corner.

Who acts: boy, stone · What happens: call out, produce, make, throw, roll, lie · To what, where: boy, effect, ghost, ten steps, corner

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, stone), 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	13 produced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 produced	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 boy	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 called	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 produced	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 produced	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 produced	nsubj
13	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 effect	det
15	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 produced	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 making	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 making	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 making	punct
19	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 produced	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 spring	det
21	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 making	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 threw	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 threw	nsubj
24	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 produced	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ghost	det
26	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 threw	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	29 stairs	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stairs	det
29	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 threw	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rolled	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 rolled	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rolled	nsubj
34	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 threw	conj
35	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 steps	nummod
36	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rolled	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 lay	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 lay	cc
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 lay	advmod
40	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 produced	conj
41	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 lay	xcomp
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 corner	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 corner	det
44	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lay	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 produced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle		the boy not said here		time		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	produce	past	the boy	no effect		then		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result
3	make	gerund	the boy not said here			spring		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	throw	past	boy	the ghost			down the stairs	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Theme
5	roll	past	stone	ten steps				vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location step=Theme
6	lie	past	the boy not said here		a corner	then	motionless property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=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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