Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 2

So she made a fire on her hearth, and that it might burn the quicker, she lighted it with a handful of straw.

Who acts: woman, fire · What happens: make, burn, light · To what, where: fire, hearth

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 (woman, fire), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hearth	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hearth	nmod:poss
8	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 burn	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 burn	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 burn	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 burn	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 burn	aux
14	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 quicker	det
16	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 burn	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lighted	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lighted	nsubj
19	lighted	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lighted	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 handful	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 handful	det
23	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lighted	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 straw	case
25	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 handful	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	woman	a fire	woman's hearth		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
2	burn	might	fire				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	light	past	woman	fire		with a handful of straw	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product with handful=Material

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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