Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 4

As soon, then, as dinner-time approached, she took down a sausage out of the chimney, and putting it in a frying-pan with batter, set it over the fire.

Who acts: Fred · What happens: approach, take down, put, set · To what, where: dinner time, sausage, chimney, frying pan, fire

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 (Fred), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 soon	case
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 took	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 soon	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dinner	punct
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
10	approached	approach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 time	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 took	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sausage	det
16	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 chimney	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 chimney	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 chimney	det
20	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 set	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
23	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 set	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 putting	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 pan	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pan	det
27	frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pan	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 frying	punct
29	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 putting	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 batter	case
31	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 putting	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 putting	punct
33	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	obj
35	over	over	ADP	_	37 fire	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fire	det
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	participle		dinner time not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take down	past	Fred	a sausage	the chimney	then; time	soon property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Theme
3	put	gerund		sausage	a frying pan		with batter	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pan=Destination
4	set	infinitive	Fred not said here	sausage	the fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over fire=Destination

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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