Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 94

As he was speaking, two great black cats sprang up to him with an immense jump and sat down one on each side, looking at him quite wildly with their fiery eyes.

Who acts: cold, two great black cats · What happens: speak, spring up, sit down, look · To what, where: cold, one, side · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cold, two great black cats), 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	SCONJ	_	4 speaking	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 speaking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speaking	aux
4	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sprang	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speaking	punct
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 cats	nummod
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cats	amod
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cats	amod
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sprang	nsubj
10	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 sprang	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sprang	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 jump	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 jump	det
16	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 jump	amod
17	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sprang	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sat	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 side	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 side	det
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looking	punct
26	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sat	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looking	obl
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 wildly	advmod
30	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	26 looking	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 eyes	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
33	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 eyes	amod
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 looking	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past · progressive	cold					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spring up	past	two great black cats		cold		with a immense jump	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit down	past	two great black cats not said here	one		each side		tree rules
4	look	gerund	two great black cats not said here				at cold; with cats's fiery eyes; wildly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme

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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