Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 5

She began to weep, and ran to her step-mother and told of the mishap.

Who acts: girl · What happens: begin, weep, run, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 weep	mark
4	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ran	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 mother	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
10	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mother	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 step	punct
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 mishap	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mishap	det
17	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	girl		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	weep	to-infinitive	girl not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run	past	girl not said here	to girl's step mother result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result
4	tell speech: assert	past	girl not said here	of the mishap	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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