Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 37

Then she gave to him a scooped-out turnip to which half a dozen little mice were attached.

Who acts: woman · What happens: give, scoop, attach · To what, where: scooped out turnip, toad, dozen little mice

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 turnip	det
7	scooped	scoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 turnip	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 scooped	punct
9	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turnip	compound
10	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 attached	obl
13	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	15 dozen	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dozen	det
15	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 mice	nummod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mice	amod
17	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 attached	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 attached	aux:pass
19	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 turnip	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	woman	a scooped out turnip	toad	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent turnip=Theme to he=Recipient
2	scoop	participle						vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	attach	past · passive		dozen little mice			to a scooped out turnip	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to which=Co-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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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