Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 46

Presently she came to the top of a hill, down the side of which there was a road so narrow that the cart wheels always chafed the trees on each side as they passed.

Who acts: wife, cart wheels, wheels · What happens: come, be, chafe, pass · To what, where: top, trees, side

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, cart wheels, wheels), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 side	punct
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 side	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 narrow	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 was	obl
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 narrow	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 road	det
19	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 narrow	advmod
21	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 chafed	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cart	det
24	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wheels	compound
25	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 chafed	nsubj
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 chafed	advmod
27	chafed	chafe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 narrow	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trees	det
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 chafed	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 side	case
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 side	det
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chafed	obl
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 passed	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 passed	nsubj
35	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 chafed	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	wife		the top of a hill	presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location
2	is	past	wife not said here			down the side; narrow property	tree rules
3	chafe	past	cart wheels	the trees	each side	always property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Patient
4	pass	past	wheels = wheel				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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