Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 41

Thereupon she related what had happened to her in the forest; but at every word she spoke a piece of gold fell, so that the whole floor was covered.

Who acts: girl · What happens: relate, happen, speak, fall, cover · To what, where: girl, forest, piece, word, whole floor · 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 (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	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 related	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 related	nsubj
3	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happened	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
6	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 related	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happened	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 happened	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 word	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 word	det
16	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fell	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoke	nsubj
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 word	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 piece	det
20	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spoke	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 gold	case
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piece	nmod
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 related	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 covered	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	31 covered	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 covered	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 floor	det
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 floor	amod
29	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 covered	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 covered	aux:pass
31	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 fell	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 related	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	relate	past	girl				thereupon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect			girl	the forest		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
3	speak speech: other	past	girl	a piece of gold				tree rules
4	fall	past	girl not said here			every word		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at word=Location
5	cover	past · passive		the whole floor				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

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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