Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 101

The maiden was again quite at a loss what to do; but while she cried the door opened suddenly, as before, and the Dwarf appeared and asked her what she would give him in return for his assistance. "

Who acts: maiden, straw, door, Dwarf, sight · What happens: be, do, cry, open, appear, ask · To what, where: loss, straw, sight, return · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (maiden, straw, door, Dwarf), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loss	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 loss	cop
4	again	again	ADV	_	5 quite	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 loss	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 loss	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 loss	det
8	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 loss	acl:relcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 cried	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cried	nsubj
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 loss	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 opened	nsubj
19	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cried	ccomp
20	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	19 opened	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 before	punct
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 before	case
23	before	before	ADV	_	19 opened	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 appeared	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 appeared	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Dwarf	det
27	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 appeared	nsubj
28	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cried	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 asked	cc
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cried	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 asked	iobj
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 give	obj
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 give	aux
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 asked	ccomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 return	case
38	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obl
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 assistance	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 assistance	nmod:poss
41	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 loss	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 loss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the maiden			a loss		tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive		a loss				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	past	straw					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	open	past	the door				before, suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	appear	past	the Dwarf					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	straw not said here		straw			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	give	would	straw		sight	return	for sight's assistance	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Theme for assistance=Asset
8	assist		sight					nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=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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