Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 17

How prettily that little thing turns round!" said the princess, and took the spindle and began to spin.

Who acts: little thing · What happens: turn round, say, take, begin, spin · To what, where: princess, spindle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little thing), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 prettily	advmod
2	prettily	prettily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turns	advcl
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 turns	mark
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	nsubj
6	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 turns	advmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 turns	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 turns	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spindle	det
17	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 spin	mark
21	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn round	present	little thing		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
3	take in a quote	past		the spindle		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spindle=Theme
4	begin in a quote	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	spin in a quote	to-infinitive				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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