Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 46

She went down into the garden and strewed with her own hands ten sacksful of millet-seed on the grass; then she said: ‘Tomorrow morning before sunrise these must be picked up, and not a single grain be wanting.’

Who acts: princess, single grain · What happens: go down, strew, say, pick up, want · To what, where: garden, sunrise · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (princess, single grain), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 strewed	cc
8	strewed	strew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 hands	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hands	amod
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strewed	obl
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hands	conj
14	sacksful	sacksful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ten	amod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 seed	case
16	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seed	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 millet	punct
18	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sacksful	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 grass	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 grass	det
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seed	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 said	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 morning	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 morning	punct
28	Tomorrow	Tomorrow	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 morning	compound
29	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
30	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 picked	mark
31	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 picked	nsubj:pass
32	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 picked	nsubj:pass
33	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 picked	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 picked	aux:pass
35	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 said	ccomp
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 picked	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 wanting	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 wanting	cc
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 grain	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 grain	det
41	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 grain	amod
42	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wanting	nsubj
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 wanting	aux
44	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 wanting	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	44 wanting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	princess		the garden		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	strew	participle	princess not said here				with princess's own hands	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	princess			then; morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pick up	must · passive		sunrise				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	want	infinitive · progressive	a single grain					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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