Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 178
Then a man entered who was taller than all others, and looked terrible.
Who acts: man · What happens: enter, be, look
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 (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 entered | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 taller | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taller | cop |
| 7 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 entered | ccomp |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 others | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 others | det |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taller | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looked | cc |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 14 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looked | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | a man | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | than all others; tall property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | past | a man not said here | terrible property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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