Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 26

The gate was opened, and as the girl passed through, a shower of gold fell upon her, and the gold clung to her, so that she was covered with it from head to foot.

Who acts: girl, shower · What happens: open, pass through, fall, cling, cover · To what, where: gate, gold, girl, head

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, shower), 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	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	aux:pass
4	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 passed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passed	cc
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 passed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	nsubj
10	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	parataxis
11	through	through	ADV	_	10 passed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shower	det
14	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 gold	case
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shower	nmod
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passed	conj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fell	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gold	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gold	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gold	det
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	conj
24	clung	cling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 gold	acl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 clung	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 covered	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 covered	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 covered	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 covered	aux:pass
32	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 clung	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 covered	obl
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 head	case
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 covered	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 foot	case
38	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 covered	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past · passive		the gate				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	pass through	past	the girl				through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	a shower of gold				upon girl	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon she=Location
4	cling	participle		the gold not said here	girl			vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to she=Co-Theme
5	cover	past · passive		girl		head	with shower; to foot	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with it=Theme

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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