Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 74

They stopped when they heard the call, but looking round and seeing nobody, they went on again with their fighting, which now became more furious.

Who acts: robbers, fighting · What happens: stop, hear, look round, see, go on, become · To what, where: call, nobody

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 (robbers, fighting), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 call	det
7	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 went	advcl
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 looking	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seeing	cc
13	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 looking	conj
14	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 seeing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looking	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 fighting	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 fighting	nmod:poss
22	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 became	nsubj
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 became	advmod
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fighting	acl:relcl
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 furious	advmod
28	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	robbers = robber				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	hear	past	robbers = robber	the call			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus
3	look round	gerund	robbers = robber not said here			round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	gerund	robbers = robber not said here	nobody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus
5	go on	past	robbers = robber		again	with robbers's fighting	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	become	past	robbers's fighting		now	furious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	fight		robbers = robber				nom fighting «act transitive»: poss=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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