Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 40

When she came to Mother Holle's house she was not afraid, for she had already heard of her big teeth, and she hired herself to her immediately.

Who acts: thing · What happens: come, not be, hear, hire · To what, where: house, thing

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 (thing), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Holle	compound
6	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Holle	case
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 afraid	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 afraid	advmod
12	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 heard	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heard	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heard	aux
17	already	already	ADV	_	18 heard	advmod
18	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 afraid	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 teeth	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 teeth	nmod:poss
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 teeth	amod
22	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hired	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hired	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hired	nsubj
26	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 afraid	conj
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 hired	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 immediately	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 immediately	nmod:poss
30	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	26 hired	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	thing		Mother Holle's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	not is	past	thing			afraid property	tree rules
3	hear	past · perfect	thing			of thing's big teeth	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of tooth=Stimulus
4	hire	past	thing	thing			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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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