Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 12

On reaching the entrance to the forest she found the path strewed with ashes, and these she followed, throwing down some peas on either side of her at every step she took.

Who acts: feeling, these · What happens: reach, find, strew, follow, throw down, take · To what, where: entrance, path, peas, side, step

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feeling, these), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 reaching	mark
2	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 found	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 entrance	det
4	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reaching	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reaching	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 path	det
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
12	strewed	strew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 path	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 ashes	case
14	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 strewed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 followed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 followed	cc
17	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 followed	nsubj
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 followed	nsubj
19	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 throwing	punct
21	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 followed	advcl
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 throwing	compound:prt
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 peas	det
24	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 throwing	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	27 side	det
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 peas	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 side	nmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 step	case
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 step	det
32	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 throwing	obl
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 took	nsubj
34	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 step	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	gerund	feeling not said here	the entrance		to the forest	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme
2	find	past	feeling	the path			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic
3	strew	participle		the path not said here		with ashes	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ash=Theme
4	follow	past	these				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	throw down	gerund	these not said here	some peas	either side of feeling	at every step	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pea=Theme at step=Destination
6	take	past	feeling	every step not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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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