Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 31

They tugged his hair with their hands, put their feet upon his back and rolled him about, or they took a hazel-switch and beat him, and when he growled they laughed.

Who acts: children, bear · What happens: tug, put, roll, take, beat, growl · To what, where: hair, feet, back, bear, hazel switch

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, bear), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tugged	nsubj
2	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hair	nmod:poss
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tugged	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tugged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tugged	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feet	nmod:poss
11	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obj
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 back	nmod:poss
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rolled	cc
16	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tugged	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rolled	obj
18	about	about	ADV	_	16 rolled	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tugged	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 switch	det
24	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 switch	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 hazel	punct
26	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 beat	cc
28	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 took	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 beat	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 laughed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 laughed	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 growled	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 growled	nsubj
34	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 laughed	advcl
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 laughed	nsubj
36	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tugged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tug	past	children = child	bear's hair		with children's hands	vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Experiencer with hand=Instrument
2	put	infinitive	children = child not said here	children's feet	bear's back		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon back=Destination
3	roll	past	children = child not said here	bear		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent
4	take	past	children = child	a hazel switch			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent switch=Theme
5	beat	infinitive	children = child not said here	bear			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
6	growl	past	bear				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	laugh	past	children = child				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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