Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 27

The woman went down, and found all three in the midst of their lamentations, and inquired what was the cause; then Elsie told her also that her future child was to be killed by the pick-axe, when it grew big and had to draw beer, and the pick-axe fell down.

Who acts: woman, Elsie, axe, pick axe, Hans · What happens: go down, find, inquire, be, tell, kill · To what, where: three, midst, cause, woman, future child, beer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Elsie, axe, pick axe), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 three	det
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 found	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 midst	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 midst	det
12	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 three	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lamentations	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lamentations	nmod:poss
15	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 midst	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 inquired	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 inquired	cc
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 cause	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cause	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cause	det
22	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 inquired	ccomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 told	advmod
25	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	also	also	ADV	_	26 told	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 killed	mark
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 child	nmod:poss
31	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 child	amod
32	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 killed	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 killed	aux:pass
34	to	to	PART	_	36 killed	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 killed	aux:pass
36	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 told	ccomp
37	by	by	ADP	_	41 axe	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 axe	det
39	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 axe	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 pick	punct
41	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 killed	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 grew	punct
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 grew	advmod
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 grew	nsubj
45	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 told	parataxis
46	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 grew	xcomp
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 had	cc
48	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 grew	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 draw	mark
50	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 had	xcomp
51	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 draw	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 fell	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 fell	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 axe	det
55	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 axe	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 pick	punct
57	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 fell	nsubj
58	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 told	conj
59	down	down	ADV	_	58 fell	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the woman					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	find	past		all three		the midst of Hans's lamentations			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Topic
3	inquire speech: other	past							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		the cause					tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	Elsie		woman		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6	kill not said to happen	past · passive		Elsie's future child				by the pick axe	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	grow	past	axe					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	have	past	axe not said here						tree rules
9	draw	to-infinitive	axe not said here	beer					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme
10	fall down	past	the pick axe					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	lament		Hans = han						nom lamentation «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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