Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 9
So she took the bread-shovel and drew them all out.
Who acts: girl · What happens: take, draw out · To what, where: bread shovel, alas
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), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shovel | det |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shovel | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bread | punct |
| 7 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drew | cc |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drew | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 drew | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | girl | the bread shovel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shovel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw out | past | girl not said here | alas = ala | out property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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