Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 41

But the countryman seized his fiddle, and struck up a tune, and at the first note judge, clerks, and jailer were in motion; all began capering, and no one could hold the miser.

Who acts: countryman, jailer, one · What happens: seize, strike up, be, begin, caper, hold · To what, where: fiddle, tune, motion, miser

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 (countryman, jailer, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 seized	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 countryman	det
3	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	nsubj
4	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fiddle	nmod:poss
6	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 struck	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 struck	cc
9	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seized	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 struck	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tune	det
12	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 struck	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 judge	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 judge	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	19 judge	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 judge	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 judge	amod
18	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 judge	compound
19	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 clerks	punct
21	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 judge	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 motion	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 motion	cc
24	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 motion	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 motion	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 motion	case
27	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seized	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 began	advmod
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seized	conj
31	capering	caper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 began	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hold	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hold	cc
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 one	det
35	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hold	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 hold	aux
37	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 miser	det
39	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hold	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	seize	past	the countryman	countryman's fiddle		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Theme
2	strike up	participle	the countryman not said here	a tune		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Patient
3	is	past	jailer		motion	tree rules
4	begin	past	the countryman not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	caper	gerund	the countryman not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hold	could	no one	the miser		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miser=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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