Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 21
As he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together.
Who acts: fortune · What happens: have, pull out, sew · To what, where: compassionate heart, needle
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 (fortune), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pulled | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 heart | det |
| 5 | compassionate | compassionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heart | amod |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pulled | nsubj |
| 8 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 pulled | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 needle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulled | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thread | cc |
| 13 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needle | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sewed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sewed | cc |
| 16 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pulled | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 together | nmod:poss |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 sewed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | fortune | a compassionate heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pull out | past | fortune | fortune's needle and thread | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sew | past | fortune not said here | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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