Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 39
So filling her basket in great glee, she thanked the little men and gave them each her hand, and then ran home to take her step-mother what she wished for.
Who acts: girl · What happens: fill, thank, give, run, take, wish · To what, where: basket, great glee, little men, hand, strawberries, step mother
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 (girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 thanked | advmod |
| 2 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 thanked | advcl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 basket | nmod:poss |
| 4 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filling | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 glee | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glee | amod |
| 7 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 filling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 filling | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thanked | nsubj |
| 10 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thanked | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thanked | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 hand | det |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ran | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 ran | advmod |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thanked | conj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ran | advcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mother | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 step | punct |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 wished | obj |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wished | nsubj |
| 33 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 mother | acl:relcl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 wished | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | gerund | girl not said here | girl's basket | great glee | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | girl | the little men | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | girl not said here | girl's hand | strawberries = strawberry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient hand=Theme | |||
| 4 | run | past | girl not said here | then | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | girl not said here | girl's step mother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mother=Destination | ||||
| 6 | wish | past | girl | girl's step mother | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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