Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 36

The faster he played, the more violent springs was she forced to make, and the thorns tore her clothes from her body, and pricked her and wounded her till she bled, and as he did not stop, she had to dance till she lay dead on the ground.

Who acts: sweetheart, violent springs, thorns, duck · What happens: play, force, make, tore, prick, wound · To what, where: violent springs, clothes, body, duck, 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 (sweetheart, violent springs, thorns, duck), 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 faster	det
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 played	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 springs	det
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 violent	advmod
8	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 springs	amod
9	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 forced	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 forced	aux:pass
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forced	nsubj
12	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 played	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forced	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tore	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tore	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thorns	det
18	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tore	nsubj
19	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 clothes	nmod:poss
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 tore	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 body	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 body	nmod:poss
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tore	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pricked	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pricked	cc
27	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	parataxis
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pricked	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wounded	cc
30	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pricked	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wounded	obj
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	34 bled	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bled	nsubj
34	bled	bleed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wounded	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 had	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 had	cc
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 stop	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 stop	nsubj
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 stop	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 stop	advmod
41	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 had	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 stop	punct
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 dance	mark
46	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 had	xcomp
47	till	till	SCONJ	_	49 lay	mark
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lay	nsubj
49	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 dance	advcl
50	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 lay	xcomp
51	on	on	ADP	_	53 ground	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 ground	det
53	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lay	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	past	sweetheart			fast property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	force	past · passive		the violent springs			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make	to-infinitive	the violent springs not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	tore	past	the thorns	duck's clothes	duck's body		tree rules
5	prick	past		duck			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient
6	wound	past		duck			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
7	bleed	past	duck				vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
8	not stop	past · do-support	sweetheart				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
9	have	past	duck				tree rules
10	dance	to-infinitive	duck not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	lie	past	duck		the ground	dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on 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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