Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, sentence 31

The table, chairs, and benches were thrown down, the washing-bowl lay broken to pieces, and the quilts and pillows were pulled off the bed.

Who acts: washing bowl · What happens: throw down, lie, break, pull off · To what, where: table, quilts

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (washing bowl), 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 table	det
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thrown	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chairs	punct
4	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 table	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thrown	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thrown	cc
7	benches	bench	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thrown	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thrown	aux:pass
9	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 thrown	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lay	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bowl	det
13	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowl	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 washing	punct
15	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thrown	conj
17	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 lay	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 pieces	case
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 broken	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pulled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pulled	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 quilts	det
23	quilts	quilt	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pulled	nsubj:pass
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pillows	cc
25	pillows	pillow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 quilts	conj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pulled	aux:pass
27	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 thrown	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	30 bed	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bed	det
30	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pulled	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thrown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw down	past · passive		the table and chairs		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lie	past	the washing bowl			tree rules
3	break	participle	the washing bowl not said here		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to piece=Result
4	pull off	past · passive		the quilts and pillows	off the bed	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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