Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 109

And when he had said that, two great black cats came with one tremendous leap and sat down on each side of him, and looked savagely at him with their fiery eyes.

Who acts: fire, two great black cats · What happens: say, come, sit down, look · To what, where: side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, two great black cats), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 said	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	aux
5	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 that	punct
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 cats	nummod
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cats	amod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cats	amod
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 leap	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 leap	nummod
15	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 leap	amod
16	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sat	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 side	det
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 side	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looked	cc
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
28	savagely	savagely	ADV	_	27 looked	advmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 looked	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 eyes	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
33	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 eyes	amod
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 looked	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	fire			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	two great black cats		with one tremendous leap	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit down	past	two great black cats not said here	each side of fire		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
4	look	past	two great black cats not said here		at fire; with cats's fiery eyes; savagely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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