Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 26

The door was opened, and just as the maiden was standing beneath the doorway, a heavy shower of golden rain fell, and all the gold remained sticking to her, so that she was completely covered with it.

Who acts: maiden, golden rain, gold · What happens: open, stand, fall, remain, stick, cover · To what, where: door, doorway, rain, maiden

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 (maiden, golden rain, gold), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	aux:pass
4	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 standing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 standing	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	10 maiden	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 maiden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maiden	det
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 standing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 standing	aux
12	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 opened	advcl
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	15 doorway	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 doorway	det
15	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 standing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shower	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 shower	det
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shower	amod
19	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 doorway	appos
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 fell	mark
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rain	amod
22	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shower	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 remained	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 remained	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 gold	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 gold	det
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 remained	nsubj
29	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
30	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 remained	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sticking	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 covered	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 covered	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 covered	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 covered	aux:pass
38	completely	completely	ADV	_	39 covered	advmod
39	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 opened	conj
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 covered	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past · passive		the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	stand	past · progressive	the maiden			the doorway		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath doorway=Location
3	fall	past	golden rain					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remain	past	all gold					tree rules
5	stick	gerund	all gold not said here		rain			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	cover	past · passive		maiden			with door; completely property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with it=Theme

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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