Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 86

Inside the mill were twenty of the miller’s men hewing a stone, and as they went ‘Hick hack, hick hack, hick hack,’ the mill went ‘Click clack, click clack, click clack.’

Who acts: men, shoes, mill · What happens: be, hew, go, click · To what, where: twenty, mill, stone, Hick hack, clack

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 (men, shoes, mill), 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	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 mill	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mill	det
3	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 twenty	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 twenty	cop
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 miller	det
8	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 miller	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 twenty	nmod
11	hewing	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 men	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hewing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 went	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 twenty	parataxis
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 hack	punct
20	Hick	hick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hack	amod
21	hack	hack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hack	punct
23	hick	hick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hack	amod
24	hack	hack	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hack	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hack	punct
26	hick	hick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hack	amod
27	hack	hack	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hack	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
29	’	'	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mill	det
31	mill	mill	NOUN	_	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 Click	punct
34	Click	click	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 went	parataxis
35	clack	clack	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Click	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 click	punct
37	click	click	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 Click	conj
38	clack	clack	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 click	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 click	punct
40	click	click	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	34 Click	conj
41	clack	clack	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 click	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 twenty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		twenty	the mill	of the miller's men	tree rules
2	hew	gerund	the miller's men not said here	a stone			vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
3	go	past	shoes = shoe	Hick hack and hick hack and hick hack			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	the mill				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	click	infinitive		clack			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clack=Theme
6	click	infinitive		clack			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clack=Theme
7	click	infinitive		clack			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clack=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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