Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 62

At last I went down to the cellar, and there sat a very, very old woman, who could not keep her head still.

Who acts: I, old woman · What happens: go down, sit, not keep · 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 (I, 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 went	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 cellar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cellar	det
8	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 sat	expl
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	17 old	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 very	punct
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 old	advmod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 keep	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 keep	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 keep	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 keep	advmod
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 woman	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obj
26	still	still	ADV	_	23 keep	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	I		last		to the cellar; down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	sit	past	I 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	woman's head		still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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