Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 85

The girls, who by this time were used to his ingratitude, went on their way and did their business in town.

Who acts: girls · What happens: use, go, do · To what, where: girls, way, business, town

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girls	det
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 used	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 used	nsubj:pass
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 who	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 used	aux:pass
9	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 girls	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 ingratitude	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ingratitude	nmod:poss
12	ingratitude	ingratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 used	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 girls	punct
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 way	nmod:poss
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 did	cc
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 business	nmod:poss
21	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 did	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 town	case
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 did	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		the girls		to eagle's ingratitude	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	go	past	the girls		girls's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
3	do	past	the girls not said here	girls's business	town		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=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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