Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 46

She was obliged to step over the bodies of the sleepers, who were lying close together, and every moment she was filled with renewed dread lest she should awaken them.

Who acts: sleepers, woman · What happens: oblige, step, lie, fill, renew, awaken · To what, where: woman, bodies, moment, sleepers

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 (sleepers, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 obliged	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 obliged	aux:pass
3	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 step	mark
5	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 obliged	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 bodies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bodies	det
8	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 step	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sleepers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sleepers	det
11	sleepers	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bodies	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lying	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lying	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lying	aux
15	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sleepers	conj
16	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 together	advmod
17	together	together	ADV	_	15 lying	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 filled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 filled	cc
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	nsubj:pass
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 filled	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 filled	aux:pass
24	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 obliged	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 dread	case
26	renewed	renew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 dread	amod
27	dread	dread	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filled	obl
28	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	31 awaken	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 awaken	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 awaken	aux
31	awaken	awaken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 filled	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 awaken	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		woman			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	step	to-infinitive			the bodies of the sleepers		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over body=Trajectory
3	lie	past · progressive	the sleepers			together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fill	past · passive		every moment		with renewed dread	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with dread=Instrument
5	renew	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	awaken	should	woman	sleepers = sleeper			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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