Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 92

There she sat for a long time, thinking how to save her life; for she understood nothing of the art whereby straw might be spun into gold; and her perplexity increased more and more, till at last she began to weep.

Who acts: daughter, perplexity · What happens: sit, think, save, understand, spin, increase · To what, where: life, nothing, straw, gold · 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 (daughter, perplexity), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sat	expl
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thinking	punct
9	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sat	advcl
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 save	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 save	mark
12	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thinking	ccomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 save	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 understood	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 understood	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 understood	nsubj
18	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 understood	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 art	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 art	det
22	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nothing	nmod
23	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	27 spun	advmod
24	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spun	nsubj:pass
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 spun	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 spun	aux:pass
27	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 nothing	acl
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 gold	case
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spun	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 increased	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 increased	cc
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 perplexity	nmod:poss
33	perplexity	perplexity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 increased	nsubj
34	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
35	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 increased	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 more	cc
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 more	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 last	punct
39	till	till	ADP	_	41 last	case
40	at	at	ADP	_	41 last	case
41	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 increased	obl
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 began	nsubj
43	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 last	acl:relcl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 weep	mark
45	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 began	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	daughter		there	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	gerund	daughter not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	save	to-infinitive		daughter's life				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	understand	past	daughter	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	spin	might · passive		straw	gold		whereby property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into gold=Trajectory
6	increase	past	daughter's perplexity			till last		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	begin	past	daughter					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	weep	to-infinitive	daughter not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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