Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 22

The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.

Who acts: bean · What happens: thank, use, have · To what, where: fortune, black thread, black seam

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 (bean), 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 bean	det
2	bean	bean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thanked	obj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 prettily	advmod
6	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	3 thanked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 used	cc
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 tailor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tailor	det
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obl
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thanked	conj
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thread	amod
14	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beans	punct
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 beans	det
17	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thread	conj
18	since	since	SCONJ	_	20 have	mark
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 seam	det
22	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 seam	amod
23	seam	seam	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the bean		fortune		prettily property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	use	participle	the bean not said here	black thread and all beans			as the tailor	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thread=Duration as tailor=Attribute
3	have	infinitive	the bean not said here	a black seam		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seam=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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