Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 43

The one in the middle held a mussel in its mouth, which it laid on the shore at the youth’s feet, and when he had taken it up and opened it, there lay the gold ring in the shell.

Who acts: one, mouth, youth · What happens: hold, lay, take up, open, lie · To what, where: mussel, mouth, shore, gold ring, shell

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, mouth, youth), 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 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
6	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mussel	det
8	mussel	mussel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mouth	nmod:poss
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 held	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 laid	nsubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	nsubj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 mouth	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 shore	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shore	det
18	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	23 feet	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 youth	det
21	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 feet	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 youth	case
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laid	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 taken	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 taken	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 taken	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taken	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	aux
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 held	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 taken	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 taken	compound:prt
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 opened	cc
33	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 opened	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lay	punct
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 lay	expl
37	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 opened	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ring	det
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ring	compound
40	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lay	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 shell	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 shell	det
43	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ring	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the one in the middle	a mussel	mussel's mouth		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mussel=Theme in mouth=Location
2	lay	past	mussel's mouth		the shore	at the youth's feet	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shore=Destination
3	take up	past · perfect	youth	mussel			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	open	past	youth not said here	mussel			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	lie	past	youth not said here	the gold ring	the shell; there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme

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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