Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 89

He was still cursing when a loud growling was heard, and a black bear came trotting towards them out of the forest.

Who acts: eagle, black bear · What happens: curse, hear, come, trot · To what, where: loud growling, forest

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 (eagle, black 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cursing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cursing	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 cursing	advmod
4	cursing	curse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 growling	det
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 growling	amod
8	growling	growling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux:pass
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cursing	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bear	det
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bear	amod
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cursing	conj
17	trotting	trot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 came	xcomp
18	towards	towards	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 trotting	obl
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 forest	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 forest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 forest	det
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trotting	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cursing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curse	past · progressive	eagle			still		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past · passive		a loud growling				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
3	come	past	a black bear					tree rules
4	trot	gerund	a black bear not said here		the forest		towards girls = girl	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination

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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