Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, sentence 79

Then the manikin fell on them like lightning, darting this way and that way, and whosoever was so much as touched by his cudgel fell to earth, and did not venture to stir again.

Who acts: manikin, whosoever, cudgel · What happens: fall, dart, be, touch, not venture, stir · To what, where: way

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 (manikin, whosoever, cudgel), 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	4 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manikin	det
3	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 lightning	case
8	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 darting	punct
10	darting	dart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fell	advcl
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 darting	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 way	cc
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 way	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 much	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 much	cc
18	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 much	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 much	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	conj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 touched	mark
23	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 much	advcl
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 fell	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 cudgel	nmod:poss
26	cudgel	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 touched	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 earth	case
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 venture	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 venture	cc
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 venture	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 venture	advmod
34	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fell	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 stir	mark
36	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 venture	xcomp
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 stir	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the manikin		then	on commands = command; like lightning	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location
2	dart	gerund	the manikin not said here	this way and that way			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Agent
3	is	past	whosoever			much property	tree rules
4	touch	participle	whosoever not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	king's cudgel			to earth	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to earth=Theme
6	not venture	past · do-support	the manikin not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	stir	to-infinitive	the manikin not said here		again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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