Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 40

Just as he was going out of the iron door it struck twelve, and the door fell so quickly upon him that it snapped off a piece of his heel.

Who acts: door, clock · What happens: go out, strike, fall, snap off · To what, where: iron door, twelve, piece

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, clock), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 struck	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	10 door	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 door	amod
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 struck	nsubj
12	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 struck	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 struck	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 quickly	advmod
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	18 fell	advmod
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fell	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 snapped	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 snapped	nsubj
25	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fell	advcl
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 snapped	compound:prt
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 piece	det
28	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 snapped	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 heel	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 heel	nmod:poss
31	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 piece	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past · progressive	door	the iron door		tree rules
2	strike	past	clock	twelve		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
3	fall	past	the door		upon well; quickly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
4	snap off	past	clock	a piece of door's heel		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=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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