Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 21

But whilst they were getting all ready, they heard the trampling of a horse at a distance, which so frightened them that they pushed their prisoner neck and shoulders together into a sack, and swung him up by a cord to the tree, where they left him dangling, and ran away.

Who acts: brothers, king, horse · What happens: get, hear, frighten, push, swing up, leave · To what, where: all, trampling, distance, prisoner neck, sack, king

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, king, horse), 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	_	10 heard	cc
2	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	5 getting	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 getting	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	advcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 getting	obj
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 all	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 getting	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trampling	det
12	trampling	trampling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 horse	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trampling	nmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 distance	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 distance	det
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 frightened	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 frightened	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 frightened	advmod
22	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 distance	acl:relcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 frightened	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 pushed	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pushed	nsubj
26	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 frightened	advcl
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 neck	nmod:poss
28	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 neck	compound
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pushed	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shoulders	cc
31	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 neck	conj
32	together	together	ADV	_	26 pushed	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 sack	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 sack	det
35	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pushed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 swung	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 swung	cc
38	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 swung	obj
40	up	up	ADP	_	38 swung	compound:prt
41	by	by	ADP	_	43 cord	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 cord	det
43	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 swung	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 tree	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tree	det
46	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 swung	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 left	punct
48	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 left	advmod
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 left	nsubj
50	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 tree	acl:relcl
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 left	obj
52	dangling	dangle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 left	xcomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 ran	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 ran	cc
55	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	conj
56	away	away	ADV	_	55 ran	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · progressive	brothers = brother	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
2	hear	past	brothers = brother	the trampling of a horse		at a distance	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer trampling=Stimulus
3	frighten	past		a distance			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer they=Result
4	push	past	brothers = brother	brothers's prisoner neck and shoulders	a sack	together property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent neck=Theme into sack=Destination
5	swing up	past	brothers = brother not said here	king	the tree	by a cord	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme by cord=Source to tree=Trajectory
6	leave	past	brothers = brother	king			tree rules
7	dangle	gerund	king not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	run away	past	brothers = brother not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	trample		a horse				nom trampling «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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