Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 50

Then the witch herself took it into the kitchen to be dressed; and when it was ready she could not wait till it was carried up, but took a few leaves immediately and put them in her mouth, and scarcely were they swallowed when she lost her own form and ran braying down into the court in the form of an ass.

Who acts: witch, bad, leaves · What happens: take, dress, be, not wait, carry up, put · To what, where: bad, kitchen, few leaves, leaves, mouth, own form

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, bad, leaves), 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	5 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	12 dressed	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 dressed	aux:pass
12	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 kitchen	acl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 wait	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wait	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 ready	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ready	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ready	cop
18	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wait	advcl
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wait	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 wait	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 wait	advmod
22	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 took	conj
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	26 carried	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carried	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 carried	aux:pass
26	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 wait	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 carried	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 took	cc
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 leaves	det
32	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 leaves	amod
33	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 took	obj
34	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	30 took	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 put	cc
36	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 took	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 put	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 mouth	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mouth	nmod:poss
40	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 put	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 swallowed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 swallowed	cc
43	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	46 swallowed	advmod
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 swallowed	cop
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 swallowed	nsubj
46	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	parataxis
47	when	when	SCONJ	_	49 lost	mark
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lost	nsubj
49	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 swallowed	ccomp
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 form	nmod:poss
51	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 form	amod
52	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lost	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 ran	cc
54	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 swallowed	conj
55	braying	bray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 ran	advcl
56	down	down	ADV	_	55 braying	advmod
57	into	into	ADP	_	59 court	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 court	det
59	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 braying	obl
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 form	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 form	det
62	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 court	nmod
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 ass	case
64	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 ass	det
65	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 form	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the witch	bad	the kitchen	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into kitchen=Destination
2	dress	to-infinitive · passive	the witch not said here					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
3	is	past	bad				ready property	tree rules
4	not wait	could	witch					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry up	past · passive		bad				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	take	past	the witch not said here	a few leaves			immediately property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
7	put	infinitive	the witch not said here	leaves = leaf	witch's mouth			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in mouth=Destination
8	is	past	leaves = leaf				scarcely, swallow property	tree rules
9	lose	past	witch	witch's own form				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality
10	run	past	leaves = leaf not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	bray down	gerund	leaves = leaf not said here		the court in the form of a ass		down property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into court=Recipient
12	form		witch					nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent
13	form			a ass				nom form «communication 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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