Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 75

The maid happened to be just then milking the cow; and hearing someone speak, but seeing nobody, and yet being quite sure it was the same voice that she had heard in the night, she was so frightened that she fell off her stool, and overset the milk-pail.

Who acts: maid, someone, space · What happens: happen, milk, hear, speak, see, be · To what, where: cow, nobody, same voice, stool, milk pail · 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: who acts (maid, someone, space), 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 maid	det
2	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	8 milking	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 milking	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 milking	advmod
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 milking	advmod
8	milking	milk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 happened	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cow	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 milking	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 hearing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hearing	cc
13	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 happened	advcl
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 speak	nsubj
15	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hearing	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seeing	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 seeing	cc
18	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hearing	conj
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 seeing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sure	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sure	cc
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 sure	advmod
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 sure	cop
24	quite	quite	ADV	_	25 sure	advmod
25	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hearing	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 voice	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 voice	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 voice	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 voice	amod
30	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sure	parataxis
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 heard	nsubj:pass
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 heard	aux
34	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 voice	acl:relcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 night	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 night	det
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heard	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 frightened	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 frightened	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 frightened	cop
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 frightened	advmod
42	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sure	parataxis
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 fell	mark
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 fell	nsubj
45	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 frightened	advcl
46	off	off	ADP	_	48 stool	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 stool	nmod:poss
48	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fell	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 overset	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 overset	cc
51	overset	overset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 fell	conj
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 pail	det
53	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 pail	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 milk	punct
55	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 overset	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the maid				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	milk	to-infinitive · progressive	the maid not said here	the cow	then		vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source
3	hear	gerund	the maid not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	speak speech: other	infinitive	someone				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	gerund	the maid not said here	nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus
6	is	gerund			yet	sure property	tree rules
7	is a	past	maid	the same voice			tree rules
8	hear	past · perfect · passive		the same voice	night		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
9	is	past	space			frightened property	tree rules
10	fall off	past	space	space's stool			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stool=Extent
11	overset	infinitive	space not said here	the milk pail			tree rules

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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