Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 44

Then he went out and cut willows, and brought them home, and she began to weave; but it made her fingers very sore.

Who acts: man, place, money · What happens: go out, cut, bring, begin, weave, make · To what, where: willows, fingers, place

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, place, money), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	out	out	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cut	cc
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
7	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 brought	cc
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 brought	obj
12	home	home	ADV	_	10 brought	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 brought	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 weave	mark
18	weave	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	obj
24	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 sore	advmod
26	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 made	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	man			then	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cut	participle	man not said here	willows				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset willow=Product
3	bring	past	man not said here	willows = willow			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	begin	past	place					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	weave	to-infinitive	place not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	past	money	fingers	place		sore property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary finger=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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