Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean, sentence 8

‘The old woman has destroyed all my brethren in fire and smoke; she seized sixty of them at once, and took their lives.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: destroy, seize, take · To what, where: brethren, fire, sixty, lives

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 (old woman, woman), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 destroyed	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 destroyed	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 destroyed	aux
6	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 brethren	det:predet
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brethren	nmod:poss
9	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 destroyed	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 fire	case
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brethren	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 smoke	cc
13	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fire	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 seized	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seized	nsubj
16	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 destroyed	parataxis
17	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 seized	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sixty	nmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 seized	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seized	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 lives	nmod:poss
26	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 destroyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	destroy	present · perfect	the old woman	my brethren	fire and smoke	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brethren=Patient
2	seize	past	woman	sixty of brethren		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixty=Theme
3	take	past	woman not said here	brethren's lives		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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