Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 96

Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and he stood there a handsome man, clothed all in gold.

Who acts: girls, bear, bearskin, handsome man · What happens: recognize, wait, come up, fall off, stand, clothe · To what, where: voice, girls, handsome man, gold

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, bear, bearskin, handsome man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 recognized	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 recognized	nsubj
3	recognized	recognize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 voice	nmod:poss
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recognized	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 waited	cc
7	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognized	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fell	advcl
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bearskin	nmod:poss
18	bearskin	bearskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognized	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 fell	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stood	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stood	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stood	nsubj
24	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognized	conj
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 stood	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
27	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 man	amod
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stood	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 clothed	punct
30	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 man	acl
31	all	all	ADV	_	33 gold	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 gold	case
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 clothed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 recognized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognize	past	girls = girl	bear's voice			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
2	wait	past	girls = girl not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come up	past	bear		girls = girl			suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
4	fall off	past	bear's bearskin						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	stand	past	bear	a handsome man		there			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
6	clothe	participle	a handsome man not said here	gold					vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient

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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