Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 138
When midnight came, an uproar and noise of tumbling about was heard; at first it was low, but it grew louder and louder.
Who acts: midnight, noise · What happens: come, tumble, hear, be, grow · To what, where: uproar
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 (midnight, noise), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 uproar | det |
| 6 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 noise | cc |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 uproar | conj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 tumbling | mark |
| 10 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 noise | acl |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 tumbling | advmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | aux:pass |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 low | punct |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 first | case |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 low | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 low | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 low | cop |
| 19 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heard | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | conj |
| 24 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 grew | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 louder | cc |
| 26 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 louder | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tumble | gerund | noise not said here | about property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | a uproar and noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | noise | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | noise | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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