Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 80

Then she came up in the form of the Queen to the cradle, and gave the child drink, shook up his bed, and covered him up, and then swam away again as a duck through the brook.

Who acts: piece · What happens: come up, give, shake up, cover up, swim away, form · To what, where: form, child drink, bed, child, Queen

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 (piece), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 form	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 form	det
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Queen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 form	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 cradle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cradle	det
13	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 drink	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drink	compound
19	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shook	punct
21	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gave	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 shook	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bed	nmod:poss
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shook	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 covered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 covered	cc
27	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 covered	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 covered	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 swam	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 swam	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 swam	advmod
33	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 swam	advmod
35	again	again	ADV	_	33 swam	advmod
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 duck	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 duck	det
38	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 swam	obl
39	through	through	ADP	_	41 brook	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 brook	det
41	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 duck	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	piece			the form of the Queen	then	to the cradle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cradle=Initial_Location
2	give	past		the child drink					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme
3	shake up	past		child's bed					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bed=Patient
4	cover up	past	piece not said here		child				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination
5	swim away	past	piece not said here				then; again	as a duck through the brook; away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	form			the Queen					nom form «communication 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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