Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 13

The flies, however, who understood no German, would not be turned away, but came back again in ever-increasing companies.

Who acts: flies · What happens: understand, not turn away, come back, increase · To what, where: German, companies

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flies), 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 flies	det
2	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 understood	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 flies	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 understood	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 understood	nsubj
7	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 German	det
9	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 understood	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turned	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 turned	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 turned	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 turned	aux:pass
14	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 German	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 turned	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 understood	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 increasing	mark
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 increasing	advmod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 ever	punct
24	increasing	increase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
25	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 increasing	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	the flies	no German		however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer german=Stimulus
2	not turn away	would · passive	the flies not said here			away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»
3	come back	past	the flies not said here		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	increase	gerund	the flies not said here	companies	ever		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer company=Patient

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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