Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 22

‘How prettily that little thing turns round!’ said the princess, and took the spindle and began to try and spin.

Who acts: little thing · What happens: turn round, say, take, begin, try, spin · To what, where: princess, spindle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little thing), 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	_	7 turns	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 prettily	advmod
3	prettily	prettily	ADV	_	7 turns	advmod
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thing	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turns	nsubj
7	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
8	round	round	ADV	_	7 turns	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 turns	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 turns	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spindle	det
18	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 try	mark
22	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spin	cc
24	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 try	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn round	present	that little thing		prettily, round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the princess		tree rules
3	take	past		the spindle		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spindle=Theme
4	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	try	to-infinitive				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	spin	infinitive				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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