Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 84

Soon after this it chanced that the poor widow sent her children to the town to purchase cotton, needles, ribbon, and tape.

Who acts: word, poor widow · What happens: chance, send, purchase · To what, where: tape, children, town, cotton

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, poor widow), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 chanced	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 chanced	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chanced	nsubj
5	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 sent	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 widow	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 widow	amod
9	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	nsubj
10	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chanced	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 children	nmod:poss
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sent	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sent	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 purchase	mark
17	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sent	advcl
18	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 purchase	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 needles	punct
20	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cotton	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ribbon	punct
22	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cotton	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tape	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tape	cc
25	tape	tape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chanced	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chance	past	word	tape		after this	soon property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send	past	the poor widow	grasshopper's children	the town			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to town=Destination
3	purchase	to-infinitive	the poor widow not said here	cotton and needles and ribbon				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cotton=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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