Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 5

Soon the sausage began to frizzle and spit while Catherine stood by holding the handle of the pan and thinking; and among other things she thought that while the sausage was getting ready she might go into the cellar and draw some beer.

Who acts: sausage, Catherine · What happens: begin, stand, hold, think, get, go · To what, where: frizzle, handle, cellar, beer · 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 (sausage, 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sausage	det
3	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 frizzle	mark
6	frizzle	frizzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spit	cc
8	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frizzle	conj
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 stood	mark
10	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	advcl
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 holding	mark
13	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stood	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 handle	det
15	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 pan	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pan	det
18	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 handle	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 thinking	cc
20	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pan	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 thought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thought	cc
23	among	among	ADP	_	25 things	case
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 thought	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 go	mark
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 getting	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sausage	det
31	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 getting	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 getting	aux
33	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 go	advcl
34	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 getting	xcomp
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 go	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 go	aux
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thought	ccomp
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 cellar	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cellar	det
40	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 go	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 draw	cc
42	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 go	conj
43	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 beer	det
44	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 draw	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the sausage	frizzle and spit		soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frizzle=Eventuality
2	stand	past	Catherine				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hold	gerund	Catherine not said here	the handle of the pan and thinking			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	Catherine			among other things	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	get	past · progressive	the sausage			ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	go	might	Catherine		the cellar		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cellar=Initial_Location
7	draw	infinitive	Catherine not said here	some beer			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=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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