Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 65

But one day when the King had gone out, and no one was present, this bad woman seized the Queen by the head, and her daughter caught hold of her feet, and raising her out of bed, they threw her out of the window into the river which ran past.

Who acts: King, one, bad woman, daughter, feet, river · What happens: go out, be, seize, catch, raise, throw · To what, where: Queen, hold, bed, window, feet

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 (King, one, bad woman, daughter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 gone	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 gone	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 present	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 present	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 present	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 present	cop
15	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gone	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seized	punct
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 woman	det
18	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	nsubj
20	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Queen	det
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 seized	obj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 head	det
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 caught	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 caught	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 daughter	nmod:poss
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 caught	nsubj
30	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seized	conj
31	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 caught	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 feet	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 feet	nmod:poss
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hold	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 raising	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 raising	cc
37	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 caught	advcl
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 raising	obj
39	out	out	ADP	_	41 bed	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 bed	case
41	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 raising	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 threw	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 threw	nsubj
44	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seized	conj
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 threw	obj
46	out	out	ADP	_	49 window	case
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 window	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 window	det
49	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 threw	obl
50	into	into	ADP	_	52 river	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 river	det
52	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 threw	obl
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 ran	nsubj
54	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 river	acl:relcl
55	past	past	ADV	_	54 ran	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past · perfect	the King			day		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	no one				present property	tree rules
3	seize	past	this bad woman	the Queen			by the head	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
4	catch	past	Queen's daughter	hold of Queen's feet				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	raise	gerund	Queen's daughter not said here	Queen	bed			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out bed=Destination
6	throw	past	feet = foot	Queen	the window		into the river	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out window=Initial_Location into river=Destination
7	run past	past	the river				past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hold			Queen's feet				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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