Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 35

As she was hastily creeping into the hedge and was just going to pluck the flower, knowing perfectly well who the flower was, he began to play, and whether she would or not, she was forced to dance, for it was a magical dance.

Who acts: duck, flower, sweetheart · What happens: creep, go, pluck, know, be, begin · To what, where: hedge, flower, duck

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 (duck, flower, sweetheart), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 creeping	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 creeping	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 creeping	aux
4	hastily	hastily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creeping	amod
5	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 began	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 hedge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hedge	det
8	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 creeping	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 going	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 going	advmod
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 creeping	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pluck	mark
14	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flower	det
16	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pluck	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knowing	punct
18	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 creeping	advcl
19	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	20 well	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 who	advmod
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 knowing	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flower	det
23	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 who	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 who	cop
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 creeping	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	to	to	PART	_	29 play	mark
29	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 forced	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 forced	cc
32	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	34 would	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 would	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 forced	aux
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 not	cc
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 would	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 would	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 forced	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 forced	aux:pass
40	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 began	parataxis
41	to	to	PART	_	42 dance	mark
42	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 forced	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 dance	punct
44	for	for	ADP	_	49 dance	case
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 dance	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 dance	cop
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 dance	det
48	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 dance	amod
49	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dance	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep	past · progressive	duck		the hedge		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hedge=Destination
2	go	past · progressive	duck not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pluck	to-infinitive	duck not said here	the flower			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
4	know	gerund	duck not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	the flower			well property	tree rules
6	begin	past	sweetheart				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	play	to-infinitive	sweetheart not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	force	would · passive		duck			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
9	dance	to-infinitive	duck not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is	past	flower			for a magical dance	tree rules

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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