Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 128

The youth nevertheless escaped from them, but his horse leapt so violently that the helmet fell from the youth’s head, and they could see that he had golden hair.

Who acts: youth, horse, helmet, attendants · What happens: escape, leapt, fall, see, have · To what, where: head, golden hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, horse, helmet, attendants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escaped	nsubj
3	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	4 escaped	advmod
4	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 escaped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leapt	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 leapt	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horse	nmod:poss
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leapt	nsubj
11	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 escaped	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 violently	advmod
13	violently	violently	ADV	_	11 leapt	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 fell	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 helmet	det
16	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 leapt	advcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	22 head	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youth	det
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 head	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 youth	case
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fell	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 see	ccomp
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hair	amod
32	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 escaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	escape	past	the youth			from attendants = attendant; nevertheless property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from they=Initial_Location
2	leapt	past	youth's horse			violently property	tree rules
3	fall	past	the helmet		the youth's head		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from head=Initial_Location
4	see	could	attendants = attendant				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have	past	youth	golden hair			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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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