Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 111

Catherine went as she was bid, and began to grub for them, and soon made herself very dirty with the earth.

Who acts: Catherine · What happens: go, bid, begin, grub, make · To what, where: Catherine

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine), 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	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 bid	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bid	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bid	aux:pass
6	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 went	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 grub	mark
11	grub	grub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grub	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 made	advmod
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 made	obj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 dirty	advmod
20	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 made	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 earth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 earth	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dirty	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Catherine			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bid	past · passive		Catherine		tree rules
3	begin	past	Catherine not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	grub	to-infinitive	Catherine not said here		for thieves = thief	tree rules
5	make	past	Catherine not said here	Catherine	dirty, soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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