Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 77
Then away rattled the nuts down among the boughs and one of the thieves cried, ‘Bless me, it is hailing.’
Who acts: one, haste · What happens: rattle down, cry, bless, hail · To what, where: nuts, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, haste), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rattled | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 rattled | advmod |
| 3 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nuts | det |
| 5 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rattled | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 rattled | advmod |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 boughs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boughs | det |
| 9 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cried | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thieves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thieves | det |
| 14 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rattled | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bless | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bless | punct |
| 18 | Bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 Bless | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hailing | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hailing | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hailing | aux |
| 23 | hailing | hail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 Bless | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bless | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle down | past | the nuts | then | away, down property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | one of the thieves | among the boughs | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bless | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hail | present · progressive | haste | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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