Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 142

Then the uproar began again, there was a roaring and howling, and the other half fell down likewise.

Who acts: uproar, roaring, other half · What happens: begin, be, fall down

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 (uproar, roaring, other half), 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 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 uproar	det
3	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 roaring	det
10	roaring	roaring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 howling	cc
12	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roaring	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 half	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 half	amod
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 fell	advmod
20	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	18 fell	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the uproar		then; again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	be	past	a roaring and howling	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall down	past	the other half			down, likewise property	vn occur-48.3 «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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