Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 43

Neither did she make Mother Holle's bed as she ought, and did not shake it so as to make the feathers fly up.

Who acts: thing, feathers · What happens: make, not shake, fly up · To what, where: bed

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, 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	Neither	neither	ADV	_	4 make	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bed	nmod:poss
6	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mother	flat
7	's	's	PART	_	5 Mother	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 ought	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ought	nsubj
11	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shake	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shake	cc
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 shake	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 shake	advmod
16	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shake	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	21 make	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 make	mark
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 shake	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 feathers	det
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fly	nsubj
24	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 make	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 fly	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	thing	Mother's bed	neither property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product
2	not shake	past · do-support		bed		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	fly up	present	the feathers			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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