Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 37

Then they tore off her dainty clothing, laid her on a table, and cut her beautiful body into pieces, and sprinkled salt upon it.

Who acts: words · What happens: tore off, lay, cut, sprinkle · To what, where: dainty clothing, crew, table, beautiful body, pieces, salt

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 (words), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 tore	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tore	nsubj
3	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	7 clothing	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 clothing	nmod:poss
6	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clothing	amod
7	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tore	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tore	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laid	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cut	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cut	cc
16	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tore	parataxis
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 body	nmod:poss
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 body	amod
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cut	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 pieces	case
21	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cut	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sprinkled	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sprinkled	cc
24	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cut	conj
25	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sprinkled	obj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sprinkled	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tore off	past	words = word	crew's dainty clothing		then	tree rules
2	lay	past	words = word not said here	crew	a table		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on table=Destination
3	cut	past		crew's beautiful body	pieces		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent body=Material into piece=Product
4	sprinkle	past		salt	salt		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme upon it=Destination

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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