Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 45

So saying, she took another cheese out of her pocket and rolled it down; but as it did not return, she thought, "Perhaps they are waiting for a companion and don't like to come alone"; and down she bowled a third cheese.

Who acts: Catherine, cheese, wheels · What happens: say, take, roll down, not return, think, wait · To what, where: cheese, pocket, third cheese · 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, cheese, wheels), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 took	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 cheese	det
7	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 pocket	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pocket	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pocket	nmod:poss
11	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rolled	cc
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rolled	obj
15	down	down	ADP	_	13 rolled	compound:prt
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 thought	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 return	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 return	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 return	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 return	advmod
22	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thought	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 return	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 waiting	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 waiting	punct
28	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	31 waiting	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 waiting	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 waiting	aux
31	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 thought	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 companion	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 companion	det
34	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 waiting	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 like	cc
36	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 like	aux
37	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 like	advmod
38	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 waiting	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 come	mark
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 like	xcomp
41	alone	alone	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 like	punct
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 bowled	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 down	cc
45	down	down	ADV	_	47 bowled	advmod
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 bowled	nsubj
47	bowled	bowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 cheese	det
49	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	50 cheese	amod
50	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bowled	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Catherine not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	Catherine	another cheese	Catherine's pocket		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
3	roll down	past	Catherine not said here	cheese			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not return	past · do-support	cheese				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	Catherine				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait in a quote	present · progressive	wheels = wheel			for a companion; perhaps property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not like in a quote	infinitive · do-support	wheels = wheel not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	come not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	wheels = wheel not said here			alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	bowl	past	Catherine	a third cheese		down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Theme

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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