Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 112

It was in vain that the poor maiden said that it was only a silly boast of her father, for that she could do no such thing as spin straw into gold: the chamber door was locked, and she was left alone.

Who acts: heap, poor maiden, maiden · What happens: be, say, do, lock, leave · To what, where: silly boast, such thing, gold, chamber door, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heap, poor maiden, maiden), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 vain	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 vain	case
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maiden	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 maiden	amod
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vain	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 boast	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 boast	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 boast	cop
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 boast	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boast	det
15	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boast	amod
16	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boast	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 do	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 that	case
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 do	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 do	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 do	aux
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 vain	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 thing	det
27	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 thing	amod
28	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 straw	case
30	spin	spin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 straw	compound
31	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obl
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 gold	case
33	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 do	obl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 locked	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 door	det
36	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 door	compound
37	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 locked	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 locked	aux:pass
39	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 vain	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 left	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 left	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 left	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 left	aux:pass
44	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 locked	conj
45	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 left	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	heap			vain property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the poor maiden				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	heap	a silly boast		of maiden's father	tree rules
4	do	could	maiden	no such thing	gold	for that; as spin straw	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5	lock	past · passive		the chamber door			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	leave	past · passive		maiden		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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