Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 44

There they found a big tree which lay felled on the ground, and close by the trunk something was jumping backwards and forwards in the grass, but they could not make out what it was.

Who acts: children, something · What happens: find, fell, jump, forward, not make out · To what, where: big tree, ground, grass

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, something), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 found	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 felled	nsubj:pass
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 felled	aux:pass
9	felled	fell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tree	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 close	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 close	cc
15	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	ccomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 trunk	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trunk	det
18	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	obl
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 jumping	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 jumping	aux
21	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 found	advcl
22	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	21 jumping	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 forwards	cc
24	forwards	forward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 grass	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forwards	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 make	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 make	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 make	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 make	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 make	advmod
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 make	compound:prt
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 make	obj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 was	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	children = child	a big tree	there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic
2	fell	past · passive		a big tree	the ground		tree rules
3	jump	past · progressive	something			backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	forward	present	children = child not said here		the grass		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not make out	could	children = child				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=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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