Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 13

Yes," said she, "it was spared at the right time to be useful to me now in my necessity"; and down she pulled the sack so hastily that she overturned the can of beer for Fred, and away it mixed with the rest on the floor. "

Who acts: Catherine, sack · What happens: say, spare, be, pull, overturn, mix · To what, where: sack, necessity, me, beer, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sack), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spared	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 spared	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spared	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spared	aux:pass
10	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spared	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 useful	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 useful	cop
17	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spared	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 useful	obl
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 necessity	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 necessity	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 necessity	nmod:poss
23	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spared	obl
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 necessity	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 pulled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pulled	cc
27	down	down	ADV	_	29 pulled	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pulled	nsubj
29	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sack	det
31	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pulled	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 hastily	advmod
33	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	29 pulled	advmod
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 overturned	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 overturned	nsubj
36	overturned	overturn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pulled	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 beer	det
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 beer	aux
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 beer	case
40	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 overturned	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 Fred	case
42	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 beer	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 mixed	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 mixed	cc
45	away	away	ADV	_	47 mixed	advmod
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 mixed	nsubj
47	mixed	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 rest	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 rest	det
50	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 mixed	obl
51	on	on	ADP	_	53 floor	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 floor	det
53	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 mixed	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Catherine						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	spare	past · passive		sack		my necessity	time		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset
3	is	to-infinitive			me			useful property	tree rules
4	pull in a quote	past	Catherine	the sack				down, hastily property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
5	overturn in a quote	past	Catherine	the beer				for Fred	tree rules
6	mix in a quote	past	sack			the floor		with the rest; away property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with rest=Co-Patient

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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