Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 48
So she took pity on them, and made use of the butter to grease them all, so that the wheels might not hurt them so much.
Who acts: wife, wheels · What happens: take, make, grease, not hurt, use · To what, where: pity, wheels, trees, butter
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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 use | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 use | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 use | amod |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 butter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 butter | det |
| 13 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 use | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 grease | mark |
| 15 | grease | grease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 use | acl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grease | obj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hurt | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 25 hurt | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 hurt | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wheels | det |
| 22 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hurt | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 hurt | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 hurt | advmod |
| 25 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hurt | obj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 hurt | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | wife | pity | on wheels = wheel; made use of the butter obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on they=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | grease | to-infinitive | wife not said here | wheels = wheel | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not hurt | might | the wheels | trees = tree | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | use | the butter | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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