Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 129

With that the bird let fall the gold chain, and it fell just round the man’s neck, so that it fitted him exactly.

Who acts: chain · What happens: let, fall, fit · To what, where: gold chain, neck, man

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chain), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 bird	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 With	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obl
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chain	det
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chain	compound
9	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	parataxis
14	just	just	ADV	_	19 neck	advmod
15	round	round	ADP	_	19 neck	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 neck	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 man	case
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fitted	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 fitted	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fitted	nsubj
24	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fitted	obj
26	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	24 fitted	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past				with the bird	tree rules
2	fall	infinitive		the gold chain			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient chain=Result
3	fall	past	chain		the man's neck		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round neck=Initial_Location
4	fit	past	chain	man		exactly property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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