Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 9

When she was below she fetched herself a chair, and set it before the barrel so that she had no need to stoop, and did not hurt her back or do herself any unexpected injury.

Who acts: Clever · What happens: be, fetch, set, have, stoop, not hurt back · To what, where: Clever, chair, barrel, need

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 (Clever), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 below	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 below	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 below	cop
4	below	below	ADV	_	6 fetched	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fetched	nsubj
6	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 fetched	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chair	det
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetched	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 set	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fetched	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 set	obj
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 barrel	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 barrel	det
16	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 had	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 set	advcl
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 need	det
22	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stoop	mark
24	stoop	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 need	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hurt	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hurt	cc
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hurt	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 hurt	advmod
29	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 fetched	parataxis
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 hurt	obj
31	back	back	ADV	_	29 hurt	advmod
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 do	cc
33	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 hurt	conj
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 do	obj
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 injury	det
36	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 injury	amod
37	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Clever			below property	tree rules
2	fetch	past	Clever	Clever			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary chair=Theme
3	set	infinitive	Clever not said here	chair	the barrel		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before barrel=Destination
4	have	past	Clever	no need			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
5	stoop	to-infinitive	Clever not said here	no need not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not hurt back	past · do-support		Clever			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient
7	do	infinitive		Clever			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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