Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 23

But scarcely had she touched it, before the fairy’s prophecy was fulfilled; the spindle wounded her, and she fell down lifeless on the ground.

Who acts: princess, spindle · What happens: have, touch, fulfil, wound, fall down · To what, where: spindle, prophecy, princess

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 (princess, spindle), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	nsubj
5	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 touched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fulfilled	punct
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 fulfilled	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fairy	det
10	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prophecy	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 fairy	case
12	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fulfilled	aux:pass
14	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 touched	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wounded	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spindle	det
17	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wounded	nsubj
18	wounded	wound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wounded	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wounded	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	25 lifeless	advmod
25	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fell	xcomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lifeless	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past			scarcely property	tree rules
2	touch	past	princess	spindle		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
3	fulfil	past · passive		the fairy's prophecy		tree rules
4	wound	past	the spindle	princess		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
5	fall down	past	princess		lifeless property	vn occur-48.3 «NP 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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