Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 44

Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman’s bed properly, and forgot to shake it so that the feathers might fly about.

Who acts: girl, feathers · What happens: neglect, not make, forget, not shake, fly · To what, where: bed

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, feathers), 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	Worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 neglected	advmod
2	still	still	ADV	_	1 Worse	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Worse	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 neglected	nsubj
5	neglected	neglect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 neglected	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bed	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 woman	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
13	properly	properly	ADV	_	7 make	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forgot	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 forgot	cc
16	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 neglected	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 shake	mark
18	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forgot	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shake	obj
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 fly	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 feathers	det
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fly	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fly	aux
25	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 shake	advcl
26	about	about	ADV	_	25 fly	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 neglected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	neglect	past	girl			vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not make	to-infinitive	girl not said here	the old woman's bed	properly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product
3	forget	past	girl not said here			tree rules
4	not shake	to-infinitive	girl not said here	bed		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	fly	might	the feathers		about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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