Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 99

But no sooner had he quieted these two and thought of sitting down again by his fire, than there came out of every hole and corner black cats and black dogs with glowing chains, continually more and more, so that he could not hide himself.

Who acts: cold · What happens: have, quiet, think, sit down, come out, glow · To what, where: two, hole, cold

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 sooner	det
3	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quieted	nsubj
6	quieted	quiet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	ccomp
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 two	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 quieted	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quieted	conj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 sitting	mark
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 thought	advcl
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 sitting	advmod
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 sitting	advmod
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fire	nmod:poss
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 came	expl
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 hole	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 hole	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 hole	det
25	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 corner	cc
27	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hole	conj
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cats	amod
29	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dogs	cc
31	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dogs	amod
32	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cats	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 chains	case
34	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 chains	amod
35	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 more	punct
37	continually	continually	ADV	_	38 more	advmod
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 came	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 more	cc
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 more	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 hide	punct
42	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	47 hide	mark
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 so	fixed
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 hide	nsubj
45	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 hide	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 hide	advmod
47	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 came	conj
48	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 hide	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past					soon property	tree rules
2	quiet	past	cold	this two				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent two=Patient
3	think speech: other	past	cold not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sit down	gerund	cold not said here			again	by cold's fire; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
5	come out	past		every hole and corner	there		with glowing chains	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result
6	glow	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not hide	could	cold	cold				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
8	fire		cold					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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