Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 100

He caused the maiden to be led into another room, still larger, full of straw; and then he bade her spin it into gold during the night if she valued her life.

Who acts: sight, straw · What happens: cause, lead, bade, spin, value · To what, where: maiden, room, straw, gold, life

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, straw), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caused	nsubj
2	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maiden	det
4	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caused	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 led	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 led	aux:pass
7	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 maiden	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 led	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 larger	punct
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 larger	advmod
13	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 room	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 full	punct
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 larger	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 straw	case
17	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 full	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 bade	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bade	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 bade	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bade	nsubj
22	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 caused	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bade	obj
24	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bade	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spin	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	27 gold	case
27	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spin	obl
28	during	during	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spin	obl
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 valued	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 valued	nsubj
33	valued	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 spin	advcl
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 life	nmod:poss
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 valued	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	cause	past	sight	the maiden			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition maiden=Patient
2	lead	to-infinitive · passive	sight not said here	the maiden not said here	another room		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into room=Destination
3	bade	past	sight	straw		then	tree rules
4	spin	infinitive	sight not said here	gold	gold	night	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into gold=Trajectory
5	value a condition, not said to happen	past	straw	straw's life			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus

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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