Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 38

Then she placed beside him a loaf, and some meat, and a flask of wine, of such a kind, that however much he took of them, they would never grow less.

Who acts: woman, that, efforts · What happens: place, take, not grow · To what, where: loaf

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, that, efforts), 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 placed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 loaf	det
7	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 meat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 meat	cc
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 meat	det
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flask	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flask	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flask	det
15	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 wine	case
17	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flask	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kind	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 kind	case
20	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	22 kind	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 kind	det
22	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 took	nsubj
25	however	however	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	28 took	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	nsubj
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 kind	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grow	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 grow	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 grow	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 grow	advmod
35	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 placed	conj
36	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 grow	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	woman	a loaf	then	beside man; a flask of wine obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme beside he=Destination
2	take	past	that			of efforts = effort	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of they=Initial_Location
3	not grow	would	efforts = effort			less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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