Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 145

Her first walk was into the barn, where she laid hold of an armful of hay, and precisely that very one in which poor Thumbling was lying asleep.

Who acts: first walk, maid, poor Thumbling · What happens: be, lay, lie, walk, hold · To what, where: barn, hold, armful

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first walk, maid, poor Thumbling), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 walk	nmod:poss
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 walk	amod
3	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barn	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 barn	cop
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 barn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barn	det
7	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 laid	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	nsubj
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 barn	parataxis
12	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 armful	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 armful	det
15	armful	armful	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 hay	case
17	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 armful	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 one	cc
20	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 one	mark
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 laid	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lying	obl
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Thumbling	amod
27	Thumbling	Thumbling	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 lying	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lying	aux
29	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 one	advcl
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lying	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 barn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	maid's first walk		the barn		tree rules
2	lay	past	maid	hold of a armful of hay			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
3	lie	past · progressive	poor Thumbling			asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
4	walk		maid				nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent
5	hold			a armful of hay			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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