Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 143

When these men heard the tailor speaking thus, they were overcome by a great dread, and ran as if the wild huntsman were behind them, and none of them would venture anything further against him.

Who acts: men, tailor, great dread, none · What happens: hear, speak, overcome, run, venture · To what, where: tailor, servants, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, tailor, great dread, none), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 tailor	acl
8	thus	thus	ADV	_	7 speaking	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 overcome	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 overcome	aux:pass
12	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 heard	parataxis
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 dread	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dread	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dread	amod
16	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 overcome	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ran	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ran	cc
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 behind	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 behind	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 huntsman	det
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 huntsman	amod
24	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 behind	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 behind	cop
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ran	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 venture	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 venture	cc
30	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	34 venture	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 none	nmod
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 venture	aux
34	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heard	conj
35	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 venture	obj
36	further	further	ADV	_	34 venture	advmod
37	against	against	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 venture	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	this men	the tailor		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tailor=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	gerund	the tailor not said here		thus property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	overcome	past · passive	a great dread	servants = servant		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
4	run	past	this men not said here		behind huntsmen = huntsman	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory
5	venture	would	none	anything	against tailor; further property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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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