Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 18
As the old woman spoke so kindly to her, the girl took courage and agreed to enter her service.
Who acts: girl · What happens: speak, take, agree, enter, service · To what, where: woman, courage, service · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 woman | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obl |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 kindly | advmod |
| 7 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spoke | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | parataxis |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 agreed | cc |
| 16 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 enter | mark |
| 18 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 agreed | xcomp |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 service | nmod:poss |
| 20 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enter | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | woman | as the old woman; kindly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the girl | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | the girl not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | girl's service | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | ||||
| 5 | service | girl | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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