Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 39

One of them now noticed a gold ring still remaining on the little finger of the murdered girl, and as he could not draw it off easily, he took a hatchet and cut off the finger; but the finger sprang into the air, and fell behind the cask into the lap of the girl who was hiding there.

Who acts: One, gold ring, fate, finger, girl · What happens: notice, remain, murder, not draw off, take, cut off · To what, where: gold ring, little finger, ring, hatchet, finger, air

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 (One, gold ring, fate, finger), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 noticed	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 noticed	advmod
5	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ring	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	compound
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noticed	obj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 remaining	advmod
10	remaining	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 ring	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 finger	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 finger	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 finger	amod
14	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remaining	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 girl	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 girl	det
17	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 girl	amod
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finger	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 draw	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 draw	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 draw	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 draw	advmod
25	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 took	advcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 draw	obj
27	off	off	ADP	_	25 draw	compound:prt
28	easily	easily	ADV	_	25 draw	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 draw	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noticed	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hatchet	det
33	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cut	cc
35	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 took	conj
36	off	off	ADP	_	38 finger	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 finger	det
38	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cut	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 sprang	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 sprang	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 finger	det
42	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sprang	nsubj
43	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noticed	parataxis
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 air	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 air	det
46	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sprang	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fell	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fell	cc
49	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 sprang	conj
50	behind	behind	ADP	_	52 cask	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 cask	det
52	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fell	obl
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 lap	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 lap	det
55	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fell	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 girl	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 girl	det
58	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 lap	nmod
59	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 hiding	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 hiding	aux
61	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	58 girl	acl:relcl
62	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	61 hiding	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	One of words	a gold ring		now		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
2	remain	gerund	a gold ring not said here		the little finger of the murdered girl	still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on finger=Location
3	murder	participle						vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not draw off	could	fate	ring			easily property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	take	past	fate	a hatchet				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme
6	cut off	participle	fate not said here	the finger				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector finger=Eventuality
7	spring	past	the finger		the air			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination
8	fall	past	the finger not said here		the cask		into the lap of the girl	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind cask=Location
9	hide	past · progressive	the girl		there			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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