Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 37

The robbers, who had been not a little frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them, and scampered away as fast as they could.

Who acts: opening concert, robbers, doubt · What happens: not frighten, have, break, scamper away · To what, where: robbers, doubt, frightful hobgoblin

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Travelling Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opening concert, robbers, doubt), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 robbers	det
2	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 frightened	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 frightened	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 frightened	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 frightened	aux:pass
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 frightened	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 little	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frightened	obl:unmarked
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 robbers	acl:relcl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 concert	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 concert	det
13	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 concert	compound
14	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frightened	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 robbers	punct
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 had	advmod
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 doubt	det
19	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 broken	mark
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 hobgoblin	det
22	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hobgoblin	amod
23	hobgoblin	hobgoblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 broken	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 broken	aux
25	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 doubt	acl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 them	case
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 broken	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 scampered	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 scampered	cc
31	scampered	scamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 had	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 scampered	advmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 fast	advmod
34	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 scampered	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 could	mark
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 could	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 fast	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not frighten	past · perfect · passive	the opening concert	the robbers		a little obl:unmarked	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	have	past	the robbers	no doubt	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
3	break	past · perfect · passive	no doubt not said here	some frightful hobgoblin		in robbers = robber	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	scamper away	participle	the robbers not said here			away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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