Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 23

Then some of the wood that had been carelessly thrown down, caught fire and began to blaze.

Who acts: some · What happens: throw down, catch, begin, blaze · To what, where: wood, fire

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 caught	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 caught	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wood	det
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 some	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 thrown	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thrown	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 thrown	aux:pass
9	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	10 thrown	advmod
10	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wood	acl:relcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 thrown	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 caught	punct
13	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 caught	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 blaze	mark
18	blaze	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw down	past · perfect · passive		the wood		carelessly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	catch	past	some	fire	then		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	begin	past	some not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	blaze	to-infinitive	some not said here				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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