Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 52

They lived on this as long as it lasted; and then her husband bought a fresh lot of ware, and she sat herself down with it in the corner of the market; but a drunken soldier soon came by, and rode his horse against her stall, and broke all her goods into a thousand pieces.

Who acts: goods, money, husband, trade, drunken soldier · What happens: live, last, buy, sit down, come by, ride · To what, where: this, fresh lot, trade, corner, horse, goods

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 (goods, money, husband, trade), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 lived	obl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 lived	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 lasted	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lasted	nsubj
9	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 bought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bought	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 bought	advmod
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 husband	nmod:poss
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bought	nsubj
15	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lot	det
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lot	amod
18	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bought	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 ware	case
20	ware	ware	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lot	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bought	conj
25	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 sat	obj
26	down	down	ADP	_	24 sat	compound:prt
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 corner	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 corner	det
31	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 market	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 market	det
34	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 corner	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 came	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 came	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 soldier	det
38	drunken	drunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 soldier	amod
39	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 came	nsubj
40	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 came	advmod
41	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	parataxis
42	by	by	ADP	_	41 came	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rode	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 rode	cc
45	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 came	conj
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 horse	nmod:poss
47	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rode	obj
48	against	against	ADP	_	50 stall	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 stall	nmod:poss
50	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rode	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 broke	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 broke	cc
53	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 came	conj
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 goods	det:predet
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 goods	nmod:poss
56	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	53 broke	obj
57	into	into	ADP	_	60 pieces	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 thousand	det
59	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	60 pieces	nummod
60	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 broke	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	goods		this		long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on this=Location
2	last	past	money					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	buy	past	trade's husband	a fresh lot of ware		then		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
4	sit down	past	trade	trade	the corner of the market		with money	tree rules
5	come by	past	a drunken soldier				soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ride	past	a drunken soldier not said here	husband's horse			against trade's stall	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
7	break	past	a drunken soldier not said here	trade's goods			into thousand pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent goods=Patient into piece=Result

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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