Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 57

At last she took a kettle, set it on the fire, and boiled a net therein.

Who acts: mother · What happens: take, set, boil · To what, where: kettle, last, fire, net

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 (mother), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kettle	det
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 fire	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 boiled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 boiled	cc
15	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 net	det
17	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boiled	obj
18	therein	therein	ADV	_	15 boiled	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	mother	a kettle	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme at last=Asset
2	set	infinitive	mother not said here	kettle	the fire		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination
3	boil	past	mother not said here	a net		therein property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent net=Patient

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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