Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 30

Catherine thought she might as well make use of the new pottery, and since she had no need of anything in the kitchen, she set out each pot on the ground, and then put others on the top of the palings round the house for ornament.

Who acts: Catherine · What happens: think, make, have, set out, put, use · To what, where: use, need, pot, ground, others, top · 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), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	7 make	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
8	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 pottery	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pottery	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pottery	amod
12	pottery	pottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 use	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
15	since	since	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 need	det
19	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 anything	case
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 need	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 kitchen	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kitchen	det
24	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 anything	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 set	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 set	nsubj
27	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 set	compound:prt
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	30 pot	det
30	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 set	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 ground	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ground	det
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 set	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 put	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 put	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 put	advmod
37	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	conj
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 put	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 top	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 top	det
41	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 put	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 palings	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 palings	det
44	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 top	nmod
45	round	round	ADP	_	47 house	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 house	det
47	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 palings	nmod
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 ornament	case
49	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 house	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Catherine				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	might	Catherine	use of the new pottery			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
3	have	past	Catherine	no need of anything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
4	set out	past	Catherine	each pot	the ground		tree rules
5	put	infinitive	Catherine not said here	others	the top of the palings round the house for ornament	then	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme on top=Destination
6	use			the new pottery			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient
7	need			anything			nom need «state transitive»: of=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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