English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 61

Then the bird rattled the millstone against the eaves of the house a third time; and the stepmother said: “It thunders again, perhaps the thunder has brought something for me,” and she ran out; but the moment she stepped outside the door, down fell the millstone on her head; and so she died.

Who acts: bird, stepmother, thunder, moment · What happens: rattle, say, thunder, bring, run out, step · To what, where: millstone, thunder, door, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, stepmother, thunder, moment), 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	4 rattled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rattled	nsubj
4	rattled	rattle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 millstone	det
6	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rattled	obj
7	against	against	ADP	_	9 eaves	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eaves	det
9	eaves	eave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 millstone	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eaves	nmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	obl:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stepmother	det
19	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rattled	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 thunders	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 thunders	punct
23	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thunders	nsubj
24	thunders	thunder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 thunders	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 brought	punct
27	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 brought	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 thunder	det
29	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 brought	nsubj:pass
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 brought	aux
31	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 thunders	parataxis
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 brought	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 brought	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 brought	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 thunders	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ran	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ran	nsubj
39	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 said	conj
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 ran	compound:prt
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 stepped	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 stepped	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 moment	det
44	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stepped	nsubj
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 stepped	nsubj
46	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rattled	parataxis
47	outside	outside	ADP	_	49 door	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 door	det
49	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 stepped	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 fell	punct
51	down	down	ADV	_	52 fell	advmod
52	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 stepped	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 millstone	det
54	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fell	obj
55	on	on	ADP	_	57 head	case
56	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 head	nmod:poss
57	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fell	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 died	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 died	cc
60	so	so	ADV	_	62 died	advmod
61	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 died	nsubj
62	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rattled	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rattle	past	the bird	the millstone		then	against the eaves of the house	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent millstone=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the stepmother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thunder in a quote	present	thunder			again		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the thunder			for the stepmother = stepmother; perhaps property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination something=Theme
5	run out	past	stepmother					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	step	past	the moment		the door			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside door=Trajectory
7	fall	past	the moment not said here	the millstone	stepmother's head		down property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient millstone=Result
8	die	past	stepmother					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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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