Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 93

When the enchantress wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath this, and cried,

Who acts: enchantress · What happens: want, go in, place, cry · To what, where: enchantress, this

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 (enchantress), 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 wanted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 enchantress	det
3	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 placed	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 placed	nsubj
10	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 placed	obj
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	13 this	case
13	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 placed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 placed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	the enchantress			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go in not said to happen	to-infinitive	the enchantress not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	place	past	enchantress	enchantress	this	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme beneath this=Destination
4	cry speech: express	past	enchantress not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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