Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 135

But she had scarcely put the piece into her mouth, when she fell down dead upon the ground.

Who acts: woman · What happens: put, fall down · To what, where: piece, mouth, 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 (woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
4	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 piece	det
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 fell	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	advcl
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 fell	advmod
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fell	xcomp
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · perfect	woman	the piece		woman's mouth		scarcely property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal
2	fall down	past	woman			the ground		dead, down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location

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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