Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 129

But the duck swam quickly to her, seized her head in its beak and drew her into the water, and there the old witch had to drown.

Who acts: duck, old witch · What happens: swim, seize, draw, have, drown · To what, where: Lina, head, beak, water

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duck, old witch), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 swam	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 swam	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swam	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seized	punct
9	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seized	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 beak	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 beak	nmod:poss
14	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seized	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drew	cc
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seized	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drew	iobj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drew	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 had	expl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 witch	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 witch	amod
26	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swam	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 drown	mark
29	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the duck		Lina		quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to she=Destination
2	seize	past	the duck not said here	Lina's head		duck's beak		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	draw	past	the duck not said here		Lina		into the water result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Patient into water=Result
4	have	past	the old witch			there		tree rules
5	drown	to-infinitive	the old witch not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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