Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 8

In the night, the old woman came creeping in, she held an axe in her right hand, and felt with her left to see if anyone were lying at the outside, and then she grasped the axe with both hands, and cut her own child’s head off.

Who acts: old woman, woman, anyone · What happens: come, creep in, hold, feel, see, lie · To what, where: axe, right hand, outside, head

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 (old woman, woman, anyone), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 came	xcomp
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 creeping	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 held	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 held	nsubj
13	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 axe	det
15	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 hand	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hand	amod
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 held	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 left	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 left	nmod:poss
25	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 felt	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 felt	advcl
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 lying	mark
29	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 lying	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 lying	aux
31	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 see	advcl
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 outside	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 outside	det
34	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lying	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 grasped	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 grasped	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 grasped	advmod
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 grasped	nsubj
39	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 axe	det
41	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 grasped	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	44 hands	case
43	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	44 hands	det
44	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 grasped	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 cut	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 cut	cc
47	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 child	nmod:poss
49	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 child	amod
50	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 head	nmod:poss
51	’s	's	PART	_	50 child	case
52	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cut	obj
53	off	off	ADP	_	47 cut	compound:prt
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the old woman			night		tree rules
2	creep in	gerund	the old woman not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	past	woman	a axe	woman's right hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent axe=Theme in hand=Location
4	feel	past	the old woman not said here				with woman's left	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	lie a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	anyone		the outside			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at outside=Location
7	grasp	past	woman	the axe		then	with both hands	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent axe=Theme with hand=Instrument
8	cut off	past		woman's own child's head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=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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