Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 12

So she shook the tree till the apples fell like rain, and went on shaking till they were all down, and when she had gathered them into a heap, she went on her way.

Who acts: girl, apples · What happens: shake, fall, go, be, gather · To what, where: tree, shaking, apples, way

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, apples), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 shook	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shook	nsubj
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	obj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 fell	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 apples	det
8	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	advcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 rain	case
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 shaking	case
16	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 down	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 down	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 down	cop
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 down	advmod
21	down	down	ADV	_	14 went	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gathered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gathered	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 gathered	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gathered	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gathered	aux
27	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 shook	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gathered	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 heap	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 heap	det
31	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gathered	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	parataxis
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 way	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 way	nmod:poss
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 went	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past	girl	the tree			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	fall	past	the apples			like rain	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past			shaking		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shaking=Location
4	is	past	apples = apple			all, down property	tree rules
5	gather	past · perfect	girl	apples = apple		into a heap	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient into heap=Co-Patient
6	go	past	girl		girl's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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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