Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 126

Then the bed rolled on as if six horses were harnessed to it, up and down, over thresholds and stairs, but suddenly hop, hop, it turned over upside down, and lay on him like a mountain.

Who acts: bed · What happens: roll on, harness, hop, turn down, lay · To what, where: bed, six horses, thresholds, upside

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 (bed), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rolled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bed	det
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rolled	nsubj:pass
4	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 rolled	compound:prt
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 harnessed	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 harnessed	mark
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 horses	nummod
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 harnessed	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 harnessed	aux:pass
11	harnessed	harness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rolled	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 harnessed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 up	punct
15	up	up	ADV	_	11 harnessed	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 down	cc
17	down	down	ADV	_	15 up	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thresholds	punct
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 thresholds	case
20	thresholds	threshold	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 harnessed	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stairs	cc
22	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thresholds	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hop	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hop	cc
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 hop	advmod
26	hop	hop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 rolled	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hop	punct
28	hop	hop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 hop	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turned	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turned	nsubj
31	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hop	advcl
32	over	over	ADP	_	33 upside	case
33	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turned	obl
34	down	down	ADV	_	31 turned	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lay	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lay	cc
37	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 hop	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lay	obl
40	like	like	ADP	_	42 mountain	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 mountain	det
42	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll on	participle · passive		the bed			then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	harness	past · passive		six horses	bed	thresholds and stairs			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient
3	hop	infinitive						suddenly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hop	infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	turn down	past	bed			upside		down property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	lay	infinitive						on other; like a mountain	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on he=Destination

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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