Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 14

The next thing she came to was a little house, and there she saw an old woman looking out, with such large teeth, that she was terrified, and turned to run away.

Who acts: next thing, thing, old woman · What happens: come, be, see, look out, turn, run away · To what, where: little house, old woman

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next thing, thing, old woman), 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	3 thing	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	10 house	mark
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 house	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 saw	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
19	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 woman	acl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 looking	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 teeth	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 teeth	case
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 teeth	amod
24	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 teeth	amod
25	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 looking	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 terrified	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 terrified	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 terrified	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 terrified	cop
30	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 saw	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 turned	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 turned	cc
33	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 terrified	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 run	mark
35	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 turned	xcomp
36	away	away	ADV	_	35 run	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the next thing				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the next thing not said here	a little house			tree rules
3	see	past	thing	a old woman	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
4	look out	gerund	a old woman not said here			with such large teeth	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	thing			terrified property	tree rules
6	turn	past	thing not said here				tree rules
7	run away	to-infinitive	thing not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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