Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 99

But when they had broken open the door they found no one within; and as they came back into the house, Ashputtel was lying, as she always did, in her dirty frock by the ashes, and her dim little lamp was burning in the chimney.

Who acts: unawares, you, Ashputtel, dim little lamp · What happens: break, open, find, come back, lie, do · To what, where: door, one, house, chimney

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 (unawares, you, Ashputtel, dim little lamp), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 open	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 broken	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 broken	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 open	advcl
6	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 open	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 door	acl:relcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
13	within	within	ADP	_	12 one	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 open	advcl
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lying	punct
24	Ashputtel	Ashputtel	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 lying	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lying	aux
26	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 did	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 did	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 did	nsubj
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 did	advmod
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lying	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 frock	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 frock	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 frock	nmod:poss
35	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 frock	amod
36	frock	frock	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 did	parataxis
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 ashes	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ashes	det
39	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 frock	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 burning	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 burning	cc
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 lamp	nmod:poss
43	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 lamp	amod
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 lamp	amod
45	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 burning	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 burning	aux
47	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 chimney	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 chimney	det
50	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 burning	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past · perfect	unawares = unaware				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	open	imperative	you not said here	the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	find	past	unawares = unaware	no one			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
4	come back	past	unawares = unaware		the house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
5	lie	past · progressive	Ashputtel				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	do	past	ASHPUTTEL			always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	burn	past · progressive	ASHPUTTEL's dim little lamp		the chimney		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chimney=Location

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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