Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 76

As soon as she could pick herself up out of the dirt, she ran off as fast as she could to her master the parson, and said, ‘Sir, sir, the cow is talking!’

Who acts: space, cow · What happens: pick up, run off, say, talk · To what, where: space, dirt, Sir · 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 (space, cow), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ran	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 pick	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pick	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pick	aux
6	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 soon	advcl
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 pick	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 pick	compound:prt
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 dirt	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 dirt	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dirt	det
12	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 ran	compound:prt
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 fast	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 ran	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 could	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 could	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fast	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 master	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 master	nmod:poss
24	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 could	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 parson	det
26	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 master	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ran	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Sir	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 Sir	punct
32	Sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sir	punct
34	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Sir	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 talking	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cow	det
37	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 talking	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 talking	aux
39	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 Sir	parataxis
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 talking	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 Sir	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	could	space	space	the dirt		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
2	run off	past	space			fast, soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	space not said here	Sir and sir			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sir=Topic
4	talk	present · progressive	the cow				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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