Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Pink, sentence 7

Then came the old cook, who knew that the child had the power of wishing, and stole it away, and he took a hen, and cut it in pieces, and dropped some of its blood on the queen’s apron and on her dress.

Who acts: old cook, child, cook · What happens: come, know, have, steal away, take, cut · To what, where: power, hen, pieces, some, apron · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Pink. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old cook, child, cook), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cook	amod
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cook	acl:relcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knew	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 power	det
14	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 wishing	case
16	wishing	wishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 power	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stole	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stole	cc
19	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stole	obj
21	away	away	ADV	_	19 stole	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hen	det
27	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cut	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cut	cc
30	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cut	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 pieces	case
33	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 cut	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dropped	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 dropped	cc
36	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 dropped	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 blood	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 blood	nmod:poss
40	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 some	nmod
41	on	on	ADP	_	45 apron	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 queen	det
43	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 apron	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 queen	case
45	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dropped	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 dress	cc
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 dress	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 dress	nmod:poss
49	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 apron	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the old cook				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	the old cook						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	past	the child	the power of wishing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
4	steal away	past		power				away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	take	past	cook		a hen				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hen=Destination
6	cut	past	cook not said here	power		pieces			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
7	drop	past		some		the queen's apron and angel's dress			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme on apron=Destination

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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