Grimms' Fairy Tales, Jorinda and Jorindel, sentence 13
Then he shrank for fear, turned pale, and trembled.
Who acts: half · What happens: shrink, turn, tremble
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Jorinda and Jorindel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shrank | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shrank | nsubj |
| 3 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 fear | case |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shrank | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrank | conj |
| 8 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 turned | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trembled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trembled | cc |
| 11 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shrank | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shrank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | past | half | then | for fear | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | turn | past | half not said here | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tremble | past | half not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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