Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 49

While she was doing this kind office one of her cheeses fell out of the basket, and rolled down the hill.

Who acts: wife · What happens: do, fall, roll down · To what, where: kind office, basket, hill

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), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 doing	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fell	advcl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 office	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 office	compound
7	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 office	flat
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 cheeses	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cheeses	nmod:poss
11	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 basket	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 basket	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 basket	det
16	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rolled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rolled	cc
19	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 fell	parataxis
20	down	down	ADP	_	22 hill	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hill	det
22	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rolled	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	wife	this kind office		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Eventuality
2	fall	past			the basket	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out basket=Location
3	roll down	participle		the hill		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=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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