Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 27

‘That is a reward for your industry,’ said Mother Holle, and as she spoke she handed her the spindle which she had dropped into the well.

Who acts: That, reward, mother · What happens: be, say, speak, hand, drop · To what, where: reward, spindle, well · 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 (That, reward, mother), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 reward	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 reward	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reward	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reward	det
5	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 industry	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 industry	nmod:poss
8	industry	industry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reward	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reward	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 reward	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Mother	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spoke	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spoke	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 spoke	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoke	nsubj
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 handed	nsubj
20	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoke	conj
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 handed	iobj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spindle	det
23	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 handed	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 dropped	nsubj:pass
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dropped	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dropped	aux
27	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 spindle	acl:relcl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 well	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 well	det
30	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dropped	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a reward			for your industry	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a reward					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	mother					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hand	past	mother	the spindle	reward			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination spindle=Theme
5	drop	past · perfect · passive		the spindle		the well		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into well=Destination

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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