Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 34

So she made the sister go and sit by the well and spin, and the girl pricked her finger and thrust her hand into a thorn-bush, so that she might drop some blood on to the spindle; then she threw it into the well, and jumped in herself.

Who acts: gate, girl · What happens: make, go, sit, prick, drop on, throw · To what, where: sister, finger, thorn bush, blood, spindle, well

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 (gate, girl), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sister	det
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	iobj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sit	cc
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 well	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 well	det
11	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 spin	cc
13	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 well	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pricked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pricked	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 girl	det
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pricked	nsubj
18	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 finger	nmod:poss
20	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pricked	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thrust	cc
22	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 finger	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hand	nmod:poss
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pricked	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	29 bush	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bush	det
27	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bush	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 thorn	punct
29	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pricked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 drop	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 drop	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 drop	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 drop	aux
35	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 pricked	conj
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 blood	det
37	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drop	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	35 drop	compound:prt
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 spindle	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spindle	det
41	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drop	obl
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 threw	punct
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 threw	advmod
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 threw	nsubj
45	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 threw	obj
47	into	into	ADP	_	49 well	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 well	det
49	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 threw	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 jumped	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 jumped	cc
52	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 herself	case
54	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 jumped	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	gate		the sister				tree rules
2	go	infinitive	gate not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	infinitive	gate not said here					by the well and spin	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location
4	prick	past	the girl	gate's finger and thrust		a thorn bush			tree rules
5	drop on	might	gate	some blood		the spindle			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blood=Theme to spindle=Destination
6	throw	past	gate	blood			then	into the well result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into well=Result
7	jump	past	gate not said here					in gate	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in herself=Trajectory

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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