Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 19

She took care to do everything according to the old woman’s bidding and every time she made the bed she shook it with all her might, so that the feathers flew about like so many snowflakes.

Who acts: woman, feathers, old woman · What happens: take, care, do, accord, make, shake · To what, where: everything, bed

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 (woman, feathers, old 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	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	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 care	xcomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 do	obj
7	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 bidding	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 according	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bidding	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 woman	case
13	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 everything	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shook	cc
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shook	obl:unmarked
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 time	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bed	det
20	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shook	nsubj
22	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shook	obj
24	with	with	SCONJ	_	27 might	mark
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 might	det:predet
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 might	nmod:poss
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 shook	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 flew	punct
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 flew	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 feathers	det
32	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 flew	nsubj
33	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
34	about	about	ADV	_	33 flew	advmod
35	like	like	ADP	_	38 snowflakes	case
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 snowflakes	amod
38	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 flew	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	woman				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	care	infinitive	woman not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive	woman not said here	everything		accord the old woman's bidding	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	make	past	woman	the bed			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Product
6	shake	past	woman	bed	time		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	fly	past	the feathers			like many snowflakes; about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	bid		the old woman				nom bidding «communication 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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