Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 15

The straw therefore stretched itself from one bank to the other, and the coal, who was of an impetuous disposition, tripped quite boldly on to the newly-built bridge.

Who acts: straw, coal · What happens: stretch, be, trip, build · To what, where: idea, one bank, built bridge

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (straw, coal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 straw	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	nsubj
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 stretched	advmod
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 stretched	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 bank	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 bank	nummod
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 other	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stretched	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tripped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tripped	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coal	det
15	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tripped	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 disposition	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 disposition	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 disposition	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 disposition	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 disposition	det
21	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 disposition	amod
22	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coal	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 coal	punct
24	tripped	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stretched	conj
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 boldly	advmod
26	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 tripped	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	33 bridge	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	33 bridge	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bridge	det
30	newly	newly	ADV	_	32 built	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 newly	punct
32	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 bridge	amod
33	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tripped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	the straw	idea	one bank	to the other result; therefore property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient to other=Result
2	is	past	the coal and a impetuous disposition			of a impetuous disposition	tree rules
3	trip	past	the coal and a impetuous disposition		the built bridge	boldly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bridge=Trajectory
4	build	participle				newly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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