Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 91

‘Nothing better,’ said this false bride, ‘than that she should be thrown into a cask stuck round with sharp nails, and that two white horses should be put to it, and should drag it from street to street till she was dead.’

Who acts: Nothing, bride · What happens: say, throw, stick, put, drag, be · To what, where: false bride, bride, cask, two white horses, nail, horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nothing, bride), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 said	nsubj
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Nothing	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 bride	det
8	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bride	amod
9	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thrown	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 thrown	punct
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 thrown	mark
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 than	fixed
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thrown	nsubj:pass
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thrown	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 thrown	aux:pass
17	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	parataxis
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 cask	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cask	det
20	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thrown	obl
21	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 cask	acl
22	round	round	ADV	_	21 stuck	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 nails	case
24	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 nails	amod
25	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stuck	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 put	mark
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 horses	nummod
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 horses	amod
31	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 put	nsubj:pass
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 put	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 put	aux:pass
34	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 thrown	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 put	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 drag	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 drag	cc
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 drag	aux
40	drag	drag	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 drag	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 street	case
43	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drag	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 street	case
45	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 drag	obl
46	till	till	SCONJ	_	49 dead	mark
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 dead	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 dead	cop
49	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 drag	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 drag	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 drag	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nothing	this false bride				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bride=Topic
2	throw	should · passive		bride			into a cask result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into cask=Result
3	stick	participle		a cask not said here			with sharp nails; round property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with nail=Instrument
4	put	should · passive		two white horses	nail			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
5	drag	should		horse		street	to street	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from street=Initial_Location to street=Destination
6	is	past	bride				dead property	tree rules

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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