Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 115

All night long the Queen racked her brains for all the names she could think of, and sent a messenger through the country to collect far and wide any new names.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: rack, think, send, collect · To what, where: brains, names, messenger, country, new names

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 (Queen), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 racked	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 racked	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Queen	det
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 racked	nsubj
6	racked	rack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brains	nmod:poss
8	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 racked	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 names	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 names	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 names	det
12	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 racked	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 think	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 think	aux
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 names	acl:relcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 think	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sent	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sent	cc
19	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 racked	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 messenger	det
21	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obj
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 country	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 country	det
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sent	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 collect	mark
26	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sent	advcl
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 collect	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wide	cc
29	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 far	conj
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 names	det
31	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 names	amod
32	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 collect	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 racked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rack	past	the Queen	Queen's brains		night	for all names; long property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	think speech: other	could	Queen	all names not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot name=Theme
3	send	past	the Queen not said here	a messenger	the country			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
4	collect	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	any new names			far property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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