Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson, sentence 4

Once, too, his trembling hands could not hold the bowl, and it fell to the ground and broke.

Who acts: trembling hands, bowl · What happens: tremble, not hold, fall, break · To what, where: bowl

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Old Man and His Grandson. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trembling hands, bowl), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 hold	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	10 hold	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hold	punct
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
6	trembling	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hands	amod
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hold	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hold	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 hold	advmod
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bowl	det
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hold	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hold	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 broke	cc
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fell	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tremble	gerund				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not hold	could	grandfather's trembling hands	the bowl	once property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme
3	fall	past	bowl		to the ground	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
4	break	past	bowl not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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