Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 17

‘Here, on the stairs, I am sweeping,’ answered the first drop of blood.

Who acts: I, sweeping · What happens: sweep, answer · To what, where: first drop · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, sweeping), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 stairs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stairs	det
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Here	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sweeping	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sweeping	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sweeping	aux
10	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 answered	csubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sweeping	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 sweeping	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 drop	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 drop	amod
16	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 blood	case
18	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drop	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	present · progressive	I						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	sweeping	the first drop of blood					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent drop=Eventuality

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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