Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 15

The little girl took the piece of wood, rolled it up in a little cloth, and went on again until she came to the glass-mountain, and found the door shut.

Who acts: little girl, girl · What happens: take, roll up, go on, come, find · To what, where: piece, little cloth, glass mountain, door

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl, girl), 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	3 girl	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wood	case
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rolled	punct
10	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rolled	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 rolled	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 cloth	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cloth	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cloth	amod
16	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rolled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 went	compound:prt
21	again	again	ADV	_	19 went	advmod
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 mountain	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mountain	det
27	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mountain	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 glass	punct
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 door	det
34	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
35	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 found	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the little girl	the piece of wood				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	roll up	past	the little girl not said here	piece	a little cloth			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cloth=Trajectory
3	go on	past	the little girl not said here			again		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	girl		the glass mountain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
5	find	past	the little girl not said here	the door			shut property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic

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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