Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 70

‘And one of the robbers saw that there was a gold ring still left on her finger, and as it was difficult to draw off, he took a hatchet and cut off her finger; but the finger sprang into the air and fell behind the great cask into my lap.

Who acts: ‘, gold ring, finger · What happens: see, be, leave, draw off, take, cut off · To what, where: gold ring, finger, hatchet, air, great cask · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (‘, gold ring, 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	‘	‘	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 one	cc
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 ‘	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 robbers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 robbers	det
6	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ring	det
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ring	compound
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 left	advmod
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ring	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 finger	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 finger	nmod:poss
18	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 took	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 difficult	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 difficult	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 difficult	cop
24	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 took	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 draw	mark
26	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 difficult	csubj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 draw	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 difficult	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	parataxis
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 hatchet	det
32	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cut	cc
34	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 took	conj
35	off	off	ADP	_	37 finger	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 finger	nmod:poss
37	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cut	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 sprang	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 sprang	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 finger	det
41	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sprang	nsubj
42	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	parataxis
43	into	into	ADP	_	45 air	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 air	det
45	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sprang	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fell	cc
47	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 sprang	conj
48	behind	behind	ADP	_	51 cask	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 cask	det
50	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 cask	amod
51	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fell	obl
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 lap	case
53	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 lap	nmod:poss
54	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fell	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	‘					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	a gold ring		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	participle		a gold ring not said here	‘'s finger	still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on finger=Location
4	is	past	finger not said here				difficult property	tree rules
5	draw off	to-infinitive						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	past	finger	a hatchet				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme
7	cut off	participle	finger not said here	‘'s finger				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector finger=Eventuality
8	spring	past	the finger		the air			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination
9	fall	past	the finger not said here		the great cask		into my lap	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind cask=Location

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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