Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 13

The maiden fetched the magic wand, and she took the dead girl’s head and dropped three drops of blood on the ground, one in front of the bed, one in the kitchen, and one on the stairs.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: fetch, take, drop · To what, where: magic wand, head, three drops, ground

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetched	nsubj
3	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wand	det
5	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wand	amod
6	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fetched	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 head	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 girl	case
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dropped	cc
17	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 drops	nummod
19	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dropped	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 blood	case
21	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drops	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dropped	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 ground	appos
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 front	case
28	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 one	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bed	det
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 front	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 one	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 kitchen	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 kitchen	det
36	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 one	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 one	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 one	cc
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 fetched	conj
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 stairs	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 stairs	det
42	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 one	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fetch	past	the maiden	the magic wand		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Theme
2	take	past	maiden	the dead girl's head		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	drop	past	maiden not said here	three drops of blood	the ground	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent drop=Theme on ground=Destination

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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