Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 59

She took the child in her arms, and rocked it a while, and then, shaking up its pillow, laid it down in its cradle, and covered it over again.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: take, rock, shake up, lay down, cover over · To what, where: child, arms, door, pillow, cradle

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 (Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg11027:85): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 arms	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 arms	nmod:poss
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rocked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rocked	cc
10	rocked	rock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rocked	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 while	det
13	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rocked	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laid	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 laid	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shaking	punct
18	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 laid	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 shaking	compound:prt
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pillow	nmod:poss
21	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shaking	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shaking	punct
23	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laid	obj
25	down	down	ADP	_	23 laid	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 cradle	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cradle	nmod:poss
28	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 covered	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 covered	cc
31	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 covered	obj
33	over	over	ADP	_	31 covered	compound:prt
34	again	again	ADV	_	31 covered	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	Queen	the child	Queen's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Value in arm=Location
2	rock	past	Queen not said here	door		while	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	shake up	gerund		door's pillow			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pillow=Patient
4	lay down	past	Queen not said here	door	door's cradle	then	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cradle=Destination
5	cover over	past	Queen not said here	door		again	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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