Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 117

But when he had made away with these two, and was about to sit down again by his fire, out from every hole and corner came black cats and black dogs with red-hot chains, and more and more of them came until he could no longer move, and they yelled horribly, and got on his fire, pulled it to pieces, and tried to put it out.

Who acts: fire, hole, more, cats · What happens: make away, be, sit down, come, move, yell · To what, where: black cats, fire, hole, pieces

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, hole, more, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 made	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 two	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 two	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 about	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 about	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 about	cop
13	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sit	mark
15	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 about	xcomp
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 sit	compound:prt
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 sit	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 fire	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fire	nmod:poss
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sit	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hole	punct
22	out	out	ADV	_	25 hole	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 hole	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 hole	det
25	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 corner	cc
27	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hole	conj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sit	parataxis
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cats	amod
30	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 came	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dogs	cc
32	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 dogs	amod
33	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cats	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	38 chains	case
35	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 chains	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 red	punct
37	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 chains	amod
38	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dogs	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 came	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 came	cc
41	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 came	nsubj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 more	cc
43	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 more	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 more	obl
46	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
47	until	until	SCONJ	_	52 move	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 move	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 move	aux
50	no	no	ADV	_	51 longer	advmod
51	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	52 move	advmod
52	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 came	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 yelled	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 yelled	cc
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 yelled	nsubj
56	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 move	parataxis
57	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	56 yelled	advmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 got	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 got	cc
60	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 yelled	advcl
61	on	on	ADP	_	63 fire	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 fire	nmod:poss
63	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 got	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 pulled	punct
65	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 got	conj
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 pulled	obj
67	to	to	ADP	_	68 pieces	case
68	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 pulled	obl
69	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 tried	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 tried	cc
71	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 yelled	conj
72	to	to	PART	_	73 put	mark
73	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 tried	xcomp
74	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 put	obj
75	out	out	ADP	_	73 put	compound:prt
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make away	past · perfect	fire				with this two; away property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	fire not said here				about property	tree rules
3	sit down	to-infinitive	fire not said here			again	by fire's fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
4	come	past	every hole and corner	black cats and black dogs with red hot chains				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme
5	come	past	more					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	move	could	fire				long property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	yell speech: express	past	cats = cat				horribly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	get	past	cats = cat not said here		fire's fire			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on fire=Source
9	pull	past	cats = cat not said here	hole	pieces			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to piece=Destination
10	try	past	cats = cat not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	put out not said to happen	to-infinitive	cats = cat not said here	hole				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
12	fire		fire					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent
13	fire		fire					nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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