Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 7

Scarcely had he spoken these words when he heard a croaking over his head, and looked up and saw seven ravens as black as coal flying round and round.

Who acts: Scarcely, coal · What happens: have, speak, hear, look up, see, fly · To what, where: words, croaking, head, seven ravens · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, coal), 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	Scarcely	Scarcely	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoken	nsubj
4	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 heard	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 croaking	det
11	croaking	croaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 looked	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	conj
21	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 ravens	nummod
22	ravens	raven	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 saw	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 black	case
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 saw	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 coal	case
26	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obl
27	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 coal	acl
28	round	round	ADV	_	27 flying	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 round	cc
30	round	round	ADV	_	28 round	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarcely	this words			tree rules
2	speak speech: other	participle	Scarcely				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	Scarcely	a croaking	Scarcely's head		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer croaking=Stimulus
4	look up	past					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	past		seven ravens		as black; as coal	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus as black=Attribute
6	fly	gerund	coal not said here			round property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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