Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 47

But this one acted no better than the others, and Catherine became so anxious that she threw down a fifth and a sixth cheese also, and they were the last.

Who acts: one, Catherine, fifth · What happens: act, become, throw down, be · To what, where: fifth

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 (one, Catherine, fifth), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 acted	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 acted	nsubj
4	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 acted	xcomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 others	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 better	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 became	cc
12	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 acted	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 anxious	advmod
15	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 threw	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 threw	nsubj
18	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 anxious	advcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 threw	compound:prt
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fifth	det
21	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 threw	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cheese	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cheese	det
24	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cheese	amod
25	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fifth	conj
26	also	also	ADV	_	18 threw	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 last	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 last	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 last	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 last	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 last	det
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 acted	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 acted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	act	past	this one		good property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	Catherine		anxious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	throw down	past	Catherine	a fifth and a sixth cheese		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Theme
4	is	past	fifth		last 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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