Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 16

It happened that as the horse was going a little too fast, and Tom was calling out, ‘Gently! gently!’ two strangers came up.

Who acts: It, horse, Tom, two strangers · What happens: happen, go, call out, come up · To what, where: little

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, horse, Tom, two strangers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 happened	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 going	obl:unmarked
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 going	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 calling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 calling	cc
15	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 calling	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 calling	aux
17	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 happened	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 calling	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Gently	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Gently	punct
21	Gently	gently	ADV	_	17 calling	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 Gently	punct
23	gently	gently	ADV	_	21 Gently	advmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 calling	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 calling	punct
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 strangers	nummod
27	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 calling	parataxis
29	up	up	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · progressive	the horse	a little	fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call out speech: assert	past · progressive	Tom		gently property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come up	past	two strangers			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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