Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 20

The old woman was as good as her word: she never spoke angrily to her, and gave her roast and boiled meats every day.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: be, not speak, give, boil, word · To what, where: girl, roast · 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	6 good	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 word	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 word	nmod:poss
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 spoke	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spoke	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 spoke	advmod
13	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	parataxis
14	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	13 spoke	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 spoke	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 spoke	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 roast	nmod:poss
21	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 meats	cc
23	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 meats	amod
24	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 roast	conj
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gave	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old woman				as woman's word; good property	tree rules
2	not speak speech: other	past	woman		girl		angrily property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent
3	give	past	woman not said here	woman's roast and boiled meats		day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roast=Theme
4	boil	participle						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	word		woman					nom word «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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