Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 4

The woman mounted the three steps up to the Tailor's house with her large basket, and began to open all the pots together before him.

Who acts: woman, three · What happens: mount, step up, begin, open · To what, where: house, pots

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, three), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mounted	nsubj
3	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 three	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 steps	nsubj
6	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 steps	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tailor	det
10	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Tailor	case
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steps	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 basket	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 basket	nmod:poss
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 basket	amod
16	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steps	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 open	mark
21	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 pots	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pots	det
24	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 open	obj
25	together	together	ADV	_	21 open	advmod
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 open	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past	the woman					tree rules
2	step up	present	the three		the Tailor's house		with woman's large basket	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination
3	begin	past	the woman not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	open	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	all pots		before Tailor	together property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme before he=Location

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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