Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 58

When it was sodden she hung it on the shoulder of the poor girl, and gave her an axe, that she might go upon the frozen pond and cut a hole in the ice to drag the net.

Who acts: it, mother · What happens: be, hang, give, go, freeze, cut · To what, where: net, shoulder, axe, mother, frozen pond, hole

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 (it, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sodden	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sodden	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sodden	cop
4	sodden	sodden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hung	nsubj
6	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sodden	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hung	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 shoulder	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoulder	det
10	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 girl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girl	amod
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shoulder	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hung	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 axe	det
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 go	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 gave	conj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 pond	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 pond	det
28	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 pond	amod
29	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cut	cc
31	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hung	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hole	det
33	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cut	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 ice	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ice	det
36	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hole	nmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 drag	mark
38	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 cut	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 net	det
40	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drag	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sodden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				sodden property	tree rules
2	hang	past	mother	net		the shoulder of the poor girl		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination
3	give	past	mother not said here	a axe	mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient axe=Theme
4	go	might	mother			the frozen pond		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon pond=Location
5	freeze	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	cut	past	mother not said here	a hole		the ice		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
7	drag	to-infinitive	mother not said here	the net				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=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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