Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 31

In a short time she came by like the wind, riding on a wild tom-cat and screaming frightfully.

Who acts: witch · What happens: come, ride, scream

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Blue Light. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 wind	case
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 wind	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wind	det
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 riding	punct
12	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	18 cat	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cat	det
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cat	amod
16	tom	tom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cat	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 tom	punct
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 riding	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 screaming	cc
20	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 riding	conj
21	frightfully	frightfully	ADV	_	20 screaming	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	witch	time	by the wind	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Location
2	ride	gerund	witch not said here		on a wild tom cat	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	scream speech: express	gerund	witch not said here		frightfully property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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