Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 46
So she sat down and tried to spin; but the threads cut her tender fingers till the blood ran.
Who acts: place, threads, blood · What happens: sit down, try, spin, cut, run · To what, where: tender fingers
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 (place, threads, blood), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spin | mark |
| 8 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 cut | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 threads | det |
| 12 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cut | nsubj |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fingers | compound |
| 16 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cut | obj |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 ran | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 blood | det |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cut | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try | past | place not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | spin not said to happen | to-infinitive | place not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cut | past | the threads | place's tender fingers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset finger=Product | ||||
| 5 | run | past | the blood | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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