Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 165

Then she threw herself upon Heaven for help in her need, and went away, and journeyed on the whole night, till at last she came to a large wood.

Who acts: beast · What happens: throw, go away, journey, come, need · To what, where: beast, need, large wood

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast), 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 threw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 threw	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 Heaven	case
6	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 help	case
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 need	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 need	nmod:poss
11	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 journeyed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 journeyed	cc
18	journeyed	journey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 went	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 night	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 night	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 night	amod
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 journeyed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 last	punct
24	till	till	ADP	_	26 last	case
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 last	case
26	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 journeyed	conj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 last	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 wood	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 wood	det
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 wood	amod
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	beast	beast	beast's need	then	upon Heaven; for help	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon heaven=Destination
2	go away	past	beast not said here				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	journey	participle				night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	beast		a large wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
5	need		beast					nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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