Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 175

And she was sent into the kitchen, and made to fetch wood and water, to blow the fire, pluck the poultry, pick the herbs, sift the ashes, and do all the dirty work.

What happens: send, make, fetch, blow, pluck, pick · To what, where: light, kitchen, wood, fire, poultry, herbs

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: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 sent	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 kitchen	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kitchen	det
7	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sent	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fetch	mark
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 made	xcomp
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fetch	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 water	cc
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wood	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blow	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 blow	mark
18	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fetch	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blow	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pluck	punct
22	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 blow	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 poultry	det
24	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pluck	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pick	punct
26	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 pluck	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 herbs	det
28	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pick	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sift	punct
30	sift	sift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 blow	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ashes	det
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sift	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 do	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 do	cc
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fetch	conj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 work	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 work	det
38	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 work	amod
39	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 do	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	send	past · passive	light	the kitchen	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	make	participle			tree rules
3	fetch	to-infinitive	wood and water		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
4	blow	to-infinitive	the fire		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
5	pluck	infinitive	the poultry		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poultry=Patient
6	pick	infinitive	the herbs		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Patient
7	sift	infinitive	the ashes		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Patient
8	do	infinitive	all dirty work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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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