Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 29

The girl, however, when she saw the old woman striding towards her, changed, with her magic wand, her sweetheart Roland into a lake, and herself into a duck swimming in the middle of it.

Who acts: girl, old woman · What happens: see, stride, change · To what, where: old woman, woman, lake

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 (girl, old 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 girl	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
12	striding	stride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 woman	acl
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 striding	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 changed	punct
16	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wand	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 wand	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wand	nmod:poss
20	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wand	amod
21	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sweetheart	punct
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sweetheart	nmod:poss
24	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wand	conj
25	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 sweetheart	appos
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 lake	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lake	det
28	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 herself	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 herself	cc
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 changed	obl
32	into	into	ADP	_	35 swimming	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 swimming	det
34	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swimming	compound
35	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 changed	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 middle	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 middle	det
38	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 swimming	nmod
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 middle	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the girl	the old woman	however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	stride	gerund	the old woman not said here		towards woman	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards she=Destination
3	change	past	the girl not said here	woman	into a lake result; with woman's magic wand and woman's sweetheart; into a duck swimming in the middle of middle	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into lake=Result

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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