Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 3

Her stepmother sent her out every day to sit by the well in the high road, there to spin until she made her fingers bleed.

Who acts: stepmother, mother, fingers · What happens: send out, sit, spin, make, bleed · To what, where: mother, high road

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 (stepmother, mother, fingers), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stepmother	nmod:poss
2	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 sent	compound:prt
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 well	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 well	det
12	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 road	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 road	amod
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spin	punct
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 spin	expl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 spin	mark
20	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sit	conj
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 made	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spin	ccomp
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fingers	nmod:poss
25	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bleed	nsubj
26	bleed	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 made	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	past	mother's stepmother	mother		day		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	sit	to-infinitive	mother's stepmother not said here		the high road		by the well	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location
3	spin	to-infinitive	mother's stepmother not said here		there			tree rules
4	make	past	mother					tree rules
5	bleed	present	mother's fingers					vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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