Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 106

The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he started and fell out of bed.

Who acts: fisherman, thought · What happens: be, frighten, start, fall · To what, where: fisherman, bed

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, thought), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asleep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
4	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 frightened	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 frightened	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thought	det
9	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frightened	nsubj
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 frightened	obj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	10 frightened	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 started	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 started	nsubj
16	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 frightened	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 started	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 bed	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 bed	case
21	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fisherman			asleep, half property	tree rules
2	frighten	past	the thought	fisherman			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	start	past	thought				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	fall	past	thought not said here		bed		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out bed=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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