Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 12

And when they looked round they found that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and would certainly have fallen into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces further.

Who acts: children · What happens: look round, find, sleep, fall, go · To what, where: precipice, few paces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 looked	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	7 found	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 sleeping	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sleeping	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sleeping	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 sleeping	aux
12	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 found	ccomp
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 close	advmod
14	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sleeping	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 precipice	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 precipice	det
17	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 close	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fallen	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fallen	cc
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fallen	aux
21	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	23 fallen	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 fallen	aux
23	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 looked	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fallen	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 darkness	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 darkness	det
28	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fallen	obl
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 gone	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gone	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	aux
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 fallen	advcl
33	only	only	ADV	_	36 paces	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 paces	det
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 paces	amod
36	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gone	obl
37	further	further	ADV	_	32 gone	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look round	past	children = child				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	find	past	children = child				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sleep	past · perfect · progressive	children = child			close property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	would · perfect	children = child not said here		precipice	in the darkness; certainly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in darkness=Location
5	go a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	children = child	a few paces		further property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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