Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Travelling Musicians, sentence 41

But about midnight, when the robbers saw from afar that the lights were out and that all seemed quiet, they began to think that they had been in too great a hurry to run away; and one of them, who was bolder than the rest, went to see what was going on.

Who acts: robbers, lights, one · What happens: see, be, seem, begin, think, run away · To what, where: afar · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (robbers, lights, one), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 midnight	case
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 robbers	det
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 afar	case
10	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saw	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 out	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lights	det
13	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 out	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 out	cop
15	out	out	ADV	_	8 saw	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 out	cc
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 seemed	mark
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 seemed	advmod
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 and	ccomp
20	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seemed	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seemed	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 think	mark
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 great	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 great	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 great	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 great	cop
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 great	case
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 great	advmod
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 think	ccomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hurry	det
34	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 great	nsubj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 run	mark
36	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 hurry	acl
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 run	advmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 bolder	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 bolder	cc
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 bolder	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 one	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 bolder	punct
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 bolder	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 bolder	cop
46	bolder	bold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 saw	conj
47	than	than	ADP	_	49 rest	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 rest	det
49	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 went	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 rest	punct
51	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 bolder	conj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 see	mark
53	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 went	xcomp
54	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	56 going	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 going	aux
56	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 see	ccomp
57	on	on	ADP	_	56 going	compound:prt
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the robbers	afar	midnight		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the lights			out property	tree rules
3	seem	past	the lights not said here			quiet property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	robbers = robber				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	think speech: other	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past · perfect	robbers = robber			great property	tree rules
7	run away	to-infinitive	robbers = robber not said here			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	one of robbers			bold property	tree rules
9	go	past	one of robbers not said here			than the rest	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	see	to-infinitive	one of robbers not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	go on	past · progressive					vn function-105.2.1 «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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