Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 68

So he asked what had happened, and the old woman said, "That is produced by her weakness, she will soon lose it again."

Who acts: King, old woman, weakness, woman · What happens: ask, happen, say, produce, lose · To what, where: That, weakness · 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 (King, old woman, weakness, woman), 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	_	3 asked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	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 asked	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 produced	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 produced	punct
15	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 produced	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 produced	aux:pass
17	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 weakness	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 weakness	nmod:poss
20	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 produced	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lose	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lose	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 lose	aux
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 lose	advmod
25	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	ccomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lose	obj
27	again	again	ADV	_	25 lose	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 lose	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	King				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	produce in a quote	present · passive	woman's weakness	That			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
5	lose in a quote	future	woman	weakness	again	soon property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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