Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 86

As they crossed the heath again on their way home they surprised the dwarf, who had emptied out his bag of precious stones in a clean spot, and had not thought that anyone would come there so late.

Who acts: girls, anyone · What happens: cross, surprise, empty out, not think, come · To what, where: heath, way, bag · 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 (girls, anyone), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 crossed	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crossed	nsubj
3	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 surprised	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heath	det
5	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 crossed	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obl
10	home	home	ADV	_	3 crossed	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 surprised	nsubj
12	surprised	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dwarf	det
14	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 emptied	mark
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 emptied	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 emptied	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 emptied	aux
18	emptied	empty	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 surprised	ccomp
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 emptied	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 bag	nmod:poss
21	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 emptied	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 stones	case
23	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stones	amod
24	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bag	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 spot	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 spot	det
27	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spot	amod
28	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stones	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thought	cc
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thought	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 thought	advmod
33	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 surprised	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 come	mark
35	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 come	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thought	ccomp
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 come	advmod
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 late	advmod
40	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 come	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past	girls = girl	the heath	girls's way	again	home property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heath=Patient
2	surprise	past	girls = girl					tree rules
3	empty out	past · perfect · passive		eagle's bag of precious stones in a clean spot				tree rules
4	not think speech: other	past · perfect	girls = girl not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	come	would	anyone		there		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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