Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 18
The old woman spoke so kindly, that the girl summoned up courage and agreed to enter into her service.
Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: speak, summon up, agree, enter, service · To what, where: girl courage, girl, service · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old woman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 kindly | advmod |
| 6 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 courage | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 courage | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 courage | compound |
| 11 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 girl | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 summoned | compound:prt |
| 13 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 agreed | cc |
| 15 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 enter | mark |
| 17 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 agreed | xcomp |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 service | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 service | nmod:poss |
| 20 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enter | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the old woman | girl courage | kindly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | summon up | participle | the girl not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | the old woman not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | woman's service | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into service=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | service | woman | nom service «act 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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