Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 47

Mother Holle led her, as she had led her sister, to the broad gateway; but as she was passing through, instead of the shower of gold, a great bucketful of pitch came pouring over her.

Who acts: Mother, girl · What happens: lead, pass through, come, pour · To what, where: girl, sister, broad gateway

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 (Mother, 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	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
2	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mother	appos
3	led	lead	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 led	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 led	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 led	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 led	aux
9	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 led	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gateway	punct
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 gateway	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gateway	det
15	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gateway	amod
16	gateway	gateway	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 passing	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 passing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 passing	aux
22	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 came	advcl
23	through	through	ADV	_	22 passing	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shower	punct
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	28 shower	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shower	det
28	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 passing	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 gold	case
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shower	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bucketful	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bucketful	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bucketful	amod
34	bucketful	bucketful	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shower	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 pitch	case
36	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bucketful	nmod
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	conj
38	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 came	xcomp
39	over	over	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 pouring	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past	Mother	girl			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	lead	past · perfect	girl	girl's sister	the broad gateway		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sister=Theme to gateway=Destination
3	pass through	past · progressive	girl			instead the shower of gold and a great bucketful of pitch; through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	Mother not said here				tree rules
5	pour	gerund	Mother not said here			over girl	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over she=Location

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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