Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 16

But when she had reached the middle, and heard the water rushing beneath her, she was after all, afraid, and stood still, and ventured no farther.

Who acts: straw, water · What happens: reach, hear, rush, be, stand, venture · To what, where: middle, water

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, water), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 reached	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 reached	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	aux
5	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 heard	cc
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 water	acl
14	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rushing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 afraid	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 afraid	cop
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 afraid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 afraid	punct
22	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heard	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stood	cc
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	conj
26	still	still	ADV	_	25 stood	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ventured	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ventured	cc
29	ventured	venture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stood	conj
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 farther	det
31	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 ventured	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect	straw	the middle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=Theme
2	hear	past		the water			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
3	rush	gerund	the water not said here			beneath straw	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath she=Trajectory
4	is	past	straw		after all	afraid property	tree rules
5	stand	past			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	venture	past				far property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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