Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 42

The first day she was very obedient and industrious, and exerted herself to please Mother Holle, for she thought of the gold she should get in return.

Who acts: first day, girl · What happens: be, exert, mother, think, get · To what, where: girl, Holle, return · 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 (first day, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obedient	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 obedient	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 obedient	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 obedient	advmod
7	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 industrious	cc
9	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 obedient	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exerted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 exerted	cc
12	exerted	exert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 obedient	conj
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 exerted	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 Mother	mark
15	please	please	INTJ	_	16 Mother	discourse
16	Mother	mother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 exerted	advcl
17	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mother	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 thought	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 exerted	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 gold	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gold	det
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 get	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 get	aux
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 return	case
29	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 get	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 obedient	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the first day			obedient property	tree rules
2	be		the first day not said here				tree rules
3	exert	past	the first day not said here	girl			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
4	mother	to-infinitive	the first day not said here	Holle			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holle=Patient
5	think speech: other	past	girl				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	get	should	girl		return	of the gold	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme of gold=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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