Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 1

There was once a little brother who took his Sister by the hand, and said, "Since our own dear mother's death we have not had one happy hour; our stepmother beats us every day, and, when we come near her, kicks us away with her foot.

Who acts: little brother, we, stepmother, own dear mother · What happens: be, take, say, not have, beat, come · To what, where: Sister, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little brother, we, stepmother, own dear mother), 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	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brother	acl:relcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Sister	nmod:poss
10	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	iobj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hand	det
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
19	Since	since	ADP	_	25 death	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mother	amod
22	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mother	amod
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 death	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 mother	case
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obl
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 had	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 had	advmod
29	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hour	nummod
31	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hour	amod
32	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 beats	punct
34	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 stepmother	nmod:poss
35	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 beats	nsubj
36	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	parataxis
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 beats	obj
38	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	39 day	det
39	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 beats	obl:unmarked
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 come	cc
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 come	advmod
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 come	nsubj
45	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 beats	conj
46	near	near	ADP	_	47 her	case
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 come	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 kicks	punct
49	kicks	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 beats	conj
50	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 kicks	obj
51	away	away	ADV	_	49 kicks	advmod
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 foot	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 foot	nmod:poss
54	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 kicks	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a little brother			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	past	a little brother		brother's Sister			by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sister=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not have in a quote	present · perfect	we				since our own dear mother's death; hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	beat in a quote	present	our stepmother	us			day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location we=Theme
6	come in a quote	present	we					near stepmother	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location
7	kick away in a quote	present	our stepmother not said here	us				with stepmother's foot; away property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent we=Patient with foot=Instrument
8	die in a quote		our own dear mother						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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