Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 88

When the time came, the mother harnessed the horse, and placed Thumbling in its ear, and then the little creature cried, "Gee up, gee up!"

Who acts: time, mother, little creature · What happens: come, harness, place, thumbl, cry, gee up · To what, where: horse, ear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (time, mother, little creature), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 harnessed	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mother	det
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harnessed	nsubj
8	harnessed	harness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harnessed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 placed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 placed	cc
13	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 harnessed	conj
14	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 placed	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 ear	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ear	nmod:poss
17	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Thumbling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cried	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cried	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 cried	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 creature	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 creature	amod
23	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cried	nsubj
24	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 harnessed	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Gee	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Gee	punct
27	Gee	gee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cried	ccomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 Gee	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gee	punct
30	gee	gee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 Gee	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 gee	compound:prt
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Gee	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Gee	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	the time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	harness	past	the mother	the horse			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination
3	place	past	the mother not said here				tree rules
4	thumbl	gerund	the mother not said here		horse's ear		tree rules
5	cry speech: express	past	the little creature			then	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	gee up in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
7	gee up in a quote	infinitive					tree rules

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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