Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 103

The little Man took the ring and began to spin at once, and by morning all the straw was changed to glistening gold.

Who acts: little Man · What happens: take, begin, spin, change, glisten · To what, where: ring, straw, gold

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 (little Man), 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	3 Man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 spin	mark
10	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 spin	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 changed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 changed	cc
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 morning	case
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 changed	obl
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 straw	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 straw	det
19	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 changed	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 changed	aux:pass
21	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
22	to	to	SCONJ	_	23 glistening	mark
23	glistening	glisten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 changed	advcl
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 glistening	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take	past	the little Man	the ring		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	begin	past	the little Man not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	spin	to-infinitive	the little Man not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
4	change	past · passive		all straw	morning	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	glisten	gerund		gold		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=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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