Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 64

And there he heard a great noise and uproar; and when he asked what was the matter, the people said, ‘Two men are going to be hanged.’

Who acts: man, matter, people, Two men · What happens: hear, ask, be, say, go, hange · To what, where: great noise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, matter, people, Two men), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 heard	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 heard	expl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 noise	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 noise	amod
7	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 uproar	cc
9	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noise	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 asked	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 asked	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 asked	ccomp
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 matter	det
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 what	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asked	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 going	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 going	punct
25	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 men	nummod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 going	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 going	aux
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 said	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	31 hanged	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 hanged	aux:pass
31	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 going	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	man	a great noise and uproar	there	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the matter			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	present · progressive	Two men			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	hange	to-infinitive · passive	Two men not said here			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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