Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 147

Then still more men fell down, one after the other; they brought nine dead men’s legs and two skulls, and set them up and played at nine-pins with them.

Who acts: more men, pieces · What happens: fall down, bring, set up, play · To what, where: one, legs, pieces, nine pins

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 (more men, pieces), 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	5 fell	advmod
2	still	still	ADV	_	4 men	advmod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 fell	obl
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	nsubj
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
15	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 men	nummod
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 legs	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 men	case
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 brought	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 skulls	cc
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 skulls	nummod
22	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 legs	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 set	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 set	cc
25	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 brought	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 set	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 set	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 played	cc
29	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 brought	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 pins	case
31	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 pins	nummod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 nine	punct
33	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 played	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pins	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	more men	one after the other		then	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past	pieces = piece	nine dead men's legs and two skulls				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
3	set up	infinitive	pieces = piece not said here	pieces = piece				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result
4	play	past	pieces = piece not said here		nine pins with pieces			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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