Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 22

The thorns soon began to tear his clothes till they all hung in rags about him, and he himself was all scratched and wounded, so that the blood ran down.

Who acts: thorns, blood · What happens: begin, tear, hang, scratch, wound, run down · To what, where: clothes, rags, countryman

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thorns, blood), 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 thorns	det
2	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tear	mark
6	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 clothes	nmod:poss
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 tear	obj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 hung	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hung	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hung	advmod
12	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tear	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 rags	case
14	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hung	obl
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rags	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 scratched	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 scratched	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 scratched	nsubj:pass
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	19 he	nmod:unmarked
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 scratched	aux:pass
22	all	all	ADV	_	23 scratched	advmod
23	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wounded	cc
25	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 scratched	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ran	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 ran	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 ran	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 blood	det
30	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ran	nsubj
31	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 ran	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the thorns			soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tear	to-infinitive	the thorns not said here	countryman's clothes			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location clothes=Theme
3	hang	past	thorns = thorn		rags about countryman		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rag=Location
4	scratch	past · passive		countryman		all property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	wound	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	run down	past	the blood			down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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