Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 139
Then it was quiet for a while, and at length with a loud scream, half a man came down the chimney and fell before him.
Who acts: noise, man · What happens: be, come down, fall · To what, where: chimney, length
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 (noise, man), 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 quiet | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | cop |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 while | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quiet | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 scream | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scream | det |
| 14 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scream | amod |
| 15 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 length | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 length | punct |
| 17 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 19 man | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 chimney | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chimney | det |
| 23 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fell | cc |
| 25 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fell | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | noise | then; while | quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come down | past | half man | the chimney | length with a loud scream | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chimney=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | half man not said here | before man | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location |
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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