Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 84

Nothing could be more proper," said the old woman, "than to put such a one into a cask, stuck round with nails, and to roll it down the hill into the water."

Who acts: Nothing, old woman · What happens: be, say, put, stick, roll down · To what, where: one, cask, nail, water · 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 (Nothing, old 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 proper	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 proper	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 proper	cop
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 proper	amod
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proper	parataxis
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	8 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 proper	punct
14	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 put	mark
15	to	to	PART	_	16 put	mark
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 proper	advcl
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 one	det
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 put	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 cask	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cask	det
22	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stuck	punct
24	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 cask	acl
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 stuck	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 nails	case
27	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stuck	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 roll	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 roll	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 roll	mark
31	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 put	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 roll	obj
33	down	down	ADP	_	31 roll	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hill	det
35	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 roll	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 water	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 water	det
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 roll	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proper	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 proper	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	could	Nothing			proper property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	put	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here	such one	a cask		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal
4	stick	participle		a cask not said here		with nails; round property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with nail=Instrument
5	roll down	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here	nail	the water		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme hill=Result

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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