Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 17

The straw, however, began to burn, broke in two pieces, and fell into the stream.

Who acts: straw · What happens: begin, burn, break, fall · To what, where: two pieces, stream

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 (straw), 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 straw	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 straw	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 began	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 burn	mark
8	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 broke	punct
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pieces	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 pieces	nummod
13	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 broke	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 stream	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the straw		however property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	burn	to-infinitive	the straw not said here			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	past	the straw not said here	two pieces		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location
4	fall	past	the straw not said here		into the stream result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into stream=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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