Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 87

There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there.

Who acts: forester, sound, little child · What happens: be, go, hunt, enter, hear, scream · To what, where: forest, sound

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forester, sound, little child), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 forester	det
5	forester	forester	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forester	acl:relcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hunt	mark
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 went	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heard	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 entered	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 entered	nsubj
17	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 heard	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 entered	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 heard	nsubj
20	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sound	det
22	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heard	obj
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 screaming	mark
24	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 sound	acl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 there	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 there	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 there	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 there	cop
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 heard	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a forester		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	a forester		the forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
3	hunt	to-infinitive	a forester not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	enter	past	forester	forest			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
5	hear	past	forester	a sound			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
6	scream speech: express	gerund	a sound not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	a little child			there property	tree rules

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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