Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 46

Mother Holle led her, too, to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her. "

Who acts: Mother · What happens: lead, stand, empty · To what, where: Holle, great door, door, big kettleful

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), 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
2	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mother	appos
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 too	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 led	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 door	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 door	amod
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 standing	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 standing	cc
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 standing	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 standing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 standing	aux
17	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 led	advcl
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 standing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gold	punct
21	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	24 gold	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	21 instead	fixed
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gold	det
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 standing	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 kettleful	det
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 kettleful	amod
27	kettleful	kettleful	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 emptied	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 pitch	case
29	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kettleful	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 emptied	aux:pass
31	emptied	empty	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 standing	parataxis
32	over	over	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 emptied	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 standing	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Mother	Holle	the great door		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to door=Destination
2	stand	past · progressive	mother		door	instead the gold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location
3	empty	past · passive		a big kettleful of pitch		over mother	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=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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