Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 68

‘Then they tore off her dainty clothing, and cut her beautiful body into pieces and sprinkled salt upon it.’

Who acts: darling · What happens: tore off, cut, sprinkle · To what, where: dainty clothing, 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 (darling), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 tore	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 tore	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tore	nsubj
4	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	8 clothing	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 clothing	nmod:poss
7	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clothing	amod
8	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tore	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cut	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cut	cc
11	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tore	parataxis
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 body	amod
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 pieces	case
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cut	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sprinkled	cc
18	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	conj
19	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sprinkled	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sprinkled	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tore	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tore off	past	darling	girl's dainty clothing		then	tree rules
2	cut	past		girl's beautiful body	pieces		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent body=Material into piece=Product
3	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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