Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 3

Every day the poor girl had to sit by a well, in the highway, and spin and spin till her fingers bled.

Who acts: poor girl, spin · What happens: have, sit, bleed · To what, where: highway

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 (poor girl, spin), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sit	mark
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 well	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 well	det
11	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 highway	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 highway	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 highway	det
15	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bled	cc
18	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bled	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spin	cc
20	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spin	conj
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 fingers	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fingers	nmod:poss
23	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 spin	nmod
24	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the poor girl		day		tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	the poor girl not said here	the highway		by a well	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location
3	bleed	past	spin till girl's fingers and spin				vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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