Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 33

Then she went on sitting, and hatched them: and in a few days they crawled out, and had only a little red streak across their necks, where the tailor had sewn them together.

Who acts: shot, needle · What happens: go, hatch, crawl out, have, sew · To what, where: sitting, needle, little red streak, necks, tailor

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shot, needle), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 sitting	case
5	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hatched	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hatched	cc
8	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hatched	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 crawled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 crawled	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 days	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 days	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 days	amod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 crawled	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 crawled	nsubj
17	crawled	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 crawled	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	only	only	ADV	_	26 streak	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 streak	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 streak	amod
25	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 streak	amod
26	streak	streak	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
27	across	across	ADP	_	29 necks	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 necks	nmod:poss
29	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 streak	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sewn	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 sewn	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tailor	det
33	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sewn	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sewn	aux
35	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 streak	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sewn	obj
37	together	together	ADV	_	35 sewn	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	shot		sitting	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sitting=Location
2	hatch	past	shot not said here	needle				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Product
3	crawl out	past	needle			day		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	shot not said here	a little red streak	needle's necks			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=Patient
5	sew	past · perfect · passive		the tailor			together property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Product

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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