Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 18

Ah, my dear Fred," she replied, "I would have fried you a sausage, but while I drew the beer the dog stole it out of the pan, and while I hunted the dog the beer all ran out, and as I was about to dry up the beer with the malt I overturned your can; but be contented, the cellar is quite dry again now."

Who acts: dear Fred, I, dog, cellar · What happens: reply, fry, draw, steal, hunt, run out · To what, where: you, beer, pan, dog, malt · 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 (dear Fred, I, dog, cellar), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 replied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Fred	nmod:poss
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Fred	amod
5	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Fred	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 replied	nsubj
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fried	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 fried	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 fried	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 fried	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 fried	aux
15	fried	fry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 replied	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 fried	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sausage	det
18	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fried	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stole	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 stole	cc
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 drew	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 drew	nsubj
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stole	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beer	det
25	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dog	det
27	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stole	nsubj
28	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 stole	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 pan	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 pan	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pan	det
33	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stole	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ran	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 ran	cc
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 hunted	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 hunted	nsubj
38	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 ran	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 dog	det
40	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hunted	obj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 beer	det
42	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hunted	obj
43	all	all	ADV	_	44 ran	advmod
44	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	conj
45	out	out	ADP	_	44 ran	compound:prt
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 about	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 about	cc
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 about	mark
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 about	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 about	cop
51	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 ran	parataxis
52	to	to	PART	_	53 dry	mark
53	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 about	xcomp
54	up	up	ADP	_	53 dry	compound:prt
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 beer	det
56	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 dry	obj
57	with	with	ADP	_	59 malt	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 malt	det
59	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 dry	obl
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 overturned	nsubj
61	overturned	overturn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 malt	acl:relcl
62	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 can	nmod:poss
63	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 overturned	advcl
64	;	;	PUNCT	_	67 contented	punct
65	but	but	CCONJ	_	67 contented	cc
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 contented	aux:pass
67	contented	content	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 replied	parataxis
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 dry	punct
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 cellar	det
70	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 dry	nsubj
71	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 dry	cop
72	quite	quite	ADV	_	73 dry	advmod
73	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 contented	conj
74	again	again	ADV	_	75 now	advmod
75	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	73 dry	advmod
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	67 contented	punct
77	"	"	PUNCT	_	67 contented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert in a quote	past	my dear Fred					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fry	would · perfect	I	you				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Patient sausage=Result
3	draw	past	I	the beer				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme
4	steal	past	the dog	beer	the pan			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme out pan=Source
5	hunt	past	I	the dog				tree rules
6	run out	past	my dear Fred not said here				all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	I				about property	tree rules
8	dry up	to-infinitive	I not said here	the beer			with the malt	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent beer=Patient with malt=Instrument
9	overturn	past	I	the malt not said here				tree rules
10	content	infinitive · passive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
11	is	present	the cellar			now	dry property	tree rules

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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