Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 3

When she was emptying the beans into the pan, one dropped without her observing it, and lay on the ground beside a straw, and soon afterwards a burning coal from the fire leapt down to the two.

Who acts: woman, one, burning coal · What happens: empty, drop, observe, lay, burn, leapt down · To what, where: beans, pan, ground

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, one, burning coal), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 emptying	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 emptying	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 emptying	aux
4	emptying	empty	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 dropped	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beans	det
6	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 emptying	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 pan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pan	det
9	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 emptying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dropped	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 dropped	nsubj
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 observing	mark
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 observing	nsubj
15	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 dropped	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 observing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lay	cc
19	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 dropped	advcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	25 straw	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 straw	det
25	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 leapt	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 leapt	cc
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 afterwards	advmod
29	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	36 leapt	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 coal	det
31	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 coal	amod
32	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 leapt	nsubj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 fire	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fire	det
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 coal	nmod
36	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dropped	conj
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 leapt	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 two	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 two	det
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 leapt	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	empty	past · progressive	woman	the beans	the pan		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent bean=Theme into pan=Destination
2	drop	past	one				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	observe	gerund	woman	pan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	lay	infinitive	one not said here		the ground	beside a straw	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination
5	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leapt down	past	a burning coal from the fire			to the two; afterwards, down property	tree rules

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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