Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 53
There she was forced to do hard work; to rise early before daylight, to bring the water, to make the fire, to cook and to wash.
Who acts: wife · What happens: force, do, rise, bring, make, cook · To what, where: wife, hard work, daylight, water, fire
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 forced | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forced | aux:pass |
| 4 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | xcomp |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 work | amod |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 rise | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rise | mark |
| 11 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 forced | conj |
| 12 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 rise | advmod |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 daylight | case |
| 14 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rise | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rise | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 rise | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fire | det |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cook | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 cook | mark |
| 27 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 wash | cc |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 wash | mark |
| 30 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 cook | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | wife | there | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | wife not said here | hard work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | rise | to-infinitive | daylight | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before daylight=Location | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | the water | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | the fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | |||||
| 6 | cook | to-infinitive | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | wash | to-infinitive | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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