Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 1

In a village dwelt a poor old woman, who had gathered together a dish of beans and wanted to cook them.

Who acts: poor old woman · What happens: dwell, gather, want, cook · To what, where: poor old woman, village, dish, beans

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old woman), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 village	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 village	det
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dwelt	obl
4	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dwelt	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gathered	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 gathered	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gathered	aux
12	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 woman	acl:relcl
13	together	together	ADV	_	12 gathered	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dish	det
15	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gathered	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 beans	case
17	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dish	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wanted	cc
19	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dwelt	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 cook	mark
21	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	xcomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cook	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	past		a poor old woman	a village		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location
2	gather	past · perfect	a poor old woman	a dish of beans		together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
3	want	past					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive		beans = bean			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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