Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 53
At this the thieves were frightened, and said, ‘Softly, softly!
What happens: frighten, say · To what, where: thieves · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thieves | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thieves | det |
| 4 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Softly | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Softly | punct |
| 12 | Softly | softly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 softly | punct |
| 14 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 12 Softly | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the thieves | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | softly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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