Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 49

He found that the light came from a house which looked smaller than it really was, from the contrast of its height with that of an immense giant who stood in front of it.

Who acts: man, light, house, immense giant · What happens: find, come, look, be, stand · To what, where: house, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, light, house, immense giant), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	acl:relcl
12	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 looked	xcomp
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 was	nsubj
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 was	advmod
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 smaller	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 contrast	punct
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 contrast	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 contrast	det
20	contrast	contrast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 height	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 height	nmod:poss
23	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 contrast	nmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 that	case
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 height	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 giant	case
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 giant	det
28	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 giant	amod
29	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 that	nmod
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 stood	nsubj
31	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 giant	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 front	case
33	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stood	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 front	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	man			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	past	the light	a house	from the contrast of house's height with that	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location from contrast=Destination
3	look	past	a house		small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	be	past	light			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	stand	past	a immense giant	front of house		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location

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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