Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 44

In the same way, as the twice before, they had taken no trouble about the matter, but had picked up the first passable looking peasant woman whom they had happened to meet.

Who acts: brothers, first looking peasant woman · What happens: take, pick up, look, happen, meet · To what, where: trouble, same way

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 (brothers, first looking peasant 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 way	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 before	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 before	det
8	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 before	advmod
9	before	before	ADV	_	13 taken	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 before	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taken	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 trouble	det
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	18 matter	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 matter	det
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trouble	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 picked	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 picked	cc
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 picked	aux
22	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 taken	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 picked	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woman	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 woman	amod
26	passable	passable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 looking	compound
27	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 woman	amod
28	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 woman	amod
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 picked	advcl
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 happened	nsubj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 happened	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 happened	aux
33	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 woman	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 meet	mark
35	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 happened	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	brothers = brother	no trouble	the same way	about the matter	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Value in way=Location
2	pick up	past · perfect	brothers = brother not said here				vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	happen	past · perfect	the first looking peasant woman				tree rules
5	meet	to-infinitive	the first looking peasant woman not said here				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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