Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 33
She had to seat herself by the well and spin; and in order that her shuttle might be stained with blood, she stuck her hand into a thorn-bush and pricked her finger.
Who acts: mother, order · What happens: have, stain, stick, prick · To what, where: seat, shuttle, hand, order, finger
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 (mother, order), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 seat | mark |
| 4 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 had | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spin | cc |
| 10 | spin | spin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 well | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stuck | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stuck | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 order | case |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stuck | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 stained | mark |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shuttle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stained | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stained | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 stained | aux:pass |
| 20 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 order | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 blood | case |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stained | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 order | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stuck | nsubj |
| 25 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stuck | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 bush | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bush | det |
| 30 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bush | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 thorn | punct |
| 32 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stuck | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 pricked | cc |
| 34 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stuck | conj |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 finger | nmod:poss |
| 36 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pricked | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | mother | seat | by the well and spin; mother obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient | |||
| 2 | stain | might · passive | order not said here | mother's shuttle | with blood | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme | |||
| 3 | stick | past | mother | mother's hand | order | into a thorn bush | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in order=Destination | ||
| 4 | prick | past | mother not said here | mother's finger | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=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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