Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 58

So they ate the dry bread together, and presently Fred said, "Catherine, did you make things fast at home before you came out?"

Who acts: butter, Fred, you · What happens: eat, say, make, come out · To what, where: dry bread, Catherine, things, home · 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 (butter, Fred, you), 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	_	3 ate	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bread	det
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bread	amod
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
7	together	together	ADV	_	3 ate	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	presently	presently	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
11	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Catherine	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Catherine	punct
15	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 make	nsubj
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	obj
21	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 make	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 home	case
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obl
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 make	advcl
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	butter	the dry bread		together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
2	say speech: ask	past	Fred	Catherine		presently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	past · do-support	you	things	home	fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Product
4	come out in a quote	past	you			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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