Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 16

Then she felt for the little piece of wood; but when she unwrapped the cloth it was not there, and she saw she had lost the gift of the good stars.

Who acts: girl, piece · What happens: feel, unwrap, not be, see, lose, gift · To what, where: cloth, gift, good stars · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, piece), 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 felt	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 piece	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 piece	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 piece	amod
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wood	case
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 unwrapped	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 unwrapped	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 unwrapped	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 unwrapped	nsubj
14	unwrapped	unwrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cloth	det
16	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 unwrapped	obj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 there	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 there	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 there	advmod
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 cloth	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lost	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 lost	aux
27	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 saw	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 gift	det
29	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lost	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 stars	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stars	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stars	amod
33	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gift	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	girl		then	for the little piece of wood	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for piece=Theme
2	unwrap	past	girl	the cloth			tree rules
3	not is	past	piece	the cloth not said here		there property	tree rules
4	see	past	girl				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	lose	past · perfect	girl	the gift of the good stars			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Eventuality
6	gift			the good stars			nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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