Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 8

She walked over the meadow, and presently she came upon a baker’s oven full of bread, and the loaves cried out to her, ‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago.’

Who acts: girl, loaves · What happens: walk, come, cry out, take out, burnt, bake · To what, where: meadow, oven, girl, us, alas, we

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, loaves), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 meadow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meadow	det
5	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	presently	presently	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 oven	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 baker	det
13	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 oven	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 baker	case
15	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 oven	amod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 bread	case
18	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 full	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 loaves	det
22	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cried	nsubj
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 cried	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Take	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 Take	punct
29	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 cried	advcl
30	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 Take	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	29 Take	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 Take	conj
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 take	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	33 take	compound:prt
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 burnt	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 alas	cc
38	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 burnt	nsubj:pass
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 alas	punct
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 burnt	nsubj
41	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 burnt	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 burnt	aux:pass
43	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 walked	parataxis
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 cinder	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 cinder	det
46	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 burnt	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 baked	punct
48	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 baked	nsubj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 baked	aux:pass
50	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 walked	parataxis
51	through	through	ADP	_	52 long	case
52	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	53 ago	advmod
53	ago	ago	ADV	_	50 baked	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 baked	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	girl			the meadow		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Trajectory
2	come	past	girl			a baker's oven	presently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon oven=Location
3	cry out speech: express	past	the loaves		girl			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	take out	infinitive	the loaves not said here	us				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
5	take out	infinitive	the loaves not said here	us				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
6	burnt	shall · passive		alas			to a cinder	tree rules
7	bake	past · passive		we			ago property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

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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