Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 19

She attended to everything to the satisfaction of her mistress, and always shook her bed so vigorously that the feathers flew about like snow-flakes.

Who acts: girl, feathers · What happens: attend, shake, fly, satisfy · To what, where: bed, mistress

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, feathers), 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	2 attended	nsubj
2	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 everything	case
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 attended	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 satisfaction	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 satisfaction	det
7	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attended	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 mistress	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mistress	nmod:poss
10	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 satisfaction	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shook	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shook	cc
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 shook	advmod
14	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 attended	conj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bed	nmod:poss
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shook	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 vigorously	advmod
18	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	_	14 shook	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 flew	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 feathers	det
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flew	nsubj
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 shook	advcl
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 flew	advmod
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 flakes	case
25	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flakes	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 snow	punct
27	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flew	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 attended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	attend	past	girl		to everything; to the satisfaction of girl's mistress	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to everything=Theme
2	shake	past	girl not said here	girl's bed	always, vigorously property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
3	fly	past	the feathers		like snow flakes; about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	satisfy			girl's mistress		nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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