Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Little Peasant, sentence 91
So he jumped in; splash! went the water; it sounded as if he were calling them, and the whole crowd plunged in after him as one man.
Who acts: mayor, splash, it, whole crowd · What happens: jump in, go, sound, call, plunge · To what, where: water, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Peasant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mayor, splash, it, whole crowd), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | splash | splash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 splash | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sounded | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sounded | nsubj |
| 13 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 calling | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 calling | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 calling | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 calling | aux |
| 18 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sounded | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 calling | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 plunged | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 plunged | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 crowd | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 crowd | amod |
| 24 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 plunged | nsubj |
| 25 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 jumped | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 plunged | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 man | nummod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 plunged | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in | past | mayor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | splash | the water | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sound | past | it | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | call | past · progressive | mayor | things = thing | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | plunge | participle | the whole crowd | in mayor; as one man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in he=Attribute |
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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