Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 56
When this was done, the old woman took her daughter, and, putting a cap upon her head, laid her in the bed in the Queen's place.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: do, take, put, lay · To what, where: this, daughter, cap, head, bed
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 took | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 putting | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 putting | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 putting | punct |
| 15 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cap | det |
| 17 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 putting | obj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 putting | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 laid | punct |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 laid | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bed | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bed | det |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Queen | det |
| 29 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 place | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Queen | case |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the old woman | woman's daughter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination | ||||
| 3 | put | gerund | the old woman not said here | a cap | daughter's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme upon head=Destination | |||
| 4 | lay | past | the old woman not said here | daughter | the bed | in the Queen's place | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bed=Destination |
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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