Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 61

The cook heard this quite plain, so she sprang out of bed, and ran to open the door.

Who acts: cook · What happens: hear, spring out, run, open · To what, where: plain, bed, door

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 (cook), 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	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 plain	det
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 plain	advmod
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sprang	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 sprang	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sprang	nsubj
10	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 bed	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 open	mark
18	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ran	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 open	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	past	the cook	this plain	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer plain=Stimulus
2	spring out	past	cook	bed	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bed=Theme
3	run	past	the cook not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	open	to-infinitive	the cook not said here	the door	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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