Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 12

So she shook the tree, and the apples came falling down upon her like rain; but she continued shaking until there was not a single apple left upon it.

Who acts: girl, apples, single apple · What happens: shake, come, fall down, continue, be, leave · To what, where: tree, rain, single apple

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, apples, single apple), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 shook	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shook	nsubj
3	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 apples	det
9	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	conj
11	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 came	xcomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 falling	advmod
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 rain	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 rain	nmod:poss
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 rain	case
16	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 falling	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 continued	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 continued	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 continued	nsubj
20	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shook	parataxis
21	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 continued	xcomp
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 was	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 was	expl
24	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 shaking	ccomp
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 apple	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 apple	det
27	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 apple	amod
28	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 was	nsubj
29	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 apple	acl
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 left	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past	girl	the tree			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
2	come	past	the apples				tree rules
3	fall down	gerund	the apples not said here		girl's rain	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon rain=Location
4	continue	past	girl				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	shake	gerund	girl not said here				tree rules
6	be	past	a single apple		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	leave	participle		a single apple not said here	tree		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location
8	rain		girl				nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: 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: «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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