Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 22

At last she came to the cellar, and there sat a very, very old woman, who could not keep her head from shaking.

Who acts: girl, old woman · What happens: come, sit, not keep, shake · To what, where: last, old woman, head

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 (girl, old woman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 cellar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cellar	det
7	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 sat	expl
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	16 old	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 very	punct
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 old	advmod
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 woman	amod
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 keep	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 keep	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 keep	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 keep	advmod
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 woman	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 keep	obj
25	from	from	SCONJ	_	26 shaking	mark
26	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 keep	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	girl		last	to the cellar	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cellar=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	girl not said here	a old woman	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woman=Theme
3	not keep	could	a old woman	girl's head			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	shake	gerund	a old woman not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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