Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 46

She simply shook her head, and when they pressed her further with questions, she threw down to them her gold necklace, hoping therewith to satisfy them.

Who acts: sister, huntsmen · What happens: shake, press, throw down, hope, satisfy · To what, where: head, sister, gold necklace, huntsmen

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, huntsmen), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shook	nsubj
2	simply	simply	ADV	_	3 shook	advmod
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pressed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pressed	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 pressed	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pressed	nsubj
10	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	parataxis
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pressed	obj
12	further	further	ADV	_	10 pressed	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 questions	case
14	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pressed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	nsubj
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	parataxis
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 threw	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	obl
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 necklace	nmod:poss
22	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 necklace	amod
23	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hoping	punct
25	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 threw	advcl
26	therewith	therewith	ADV	_	25 hoping	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 satisfy	mark
28	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hoping	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 satisfy	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	shake	past	sister	sister's head		simply property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	press	past	huntsmen = huntsman	sister		with questions; further property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result
3	throw down	past	sister	sister's gold necklace	huntsmen = huntsman	down property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme to they=Destination
4	hope	gerund	sister not said here			therewith property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	satisfy not said to happen	to-infinitive	sister not said here	huntsmen = huntsman			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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