Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 85

So she poured out the vinegar, and as it dropped on them the thieves said, "Ah! the dew is beginning to fall."

Who acts: Fred, vinegar, thieves, dew · What happens: pour out, drop, say, begin, fall · To what, where: vinegar · 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 (Fred, vinegar, thieves, dew), 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 poured	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poured	nsubj
3	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 poured	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vinegar	det
6	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poured	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 dropped	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	nsubj
11	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dropped	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thieves	det
15	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poured	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beginning	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 beginning	punct
19	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	24 beginning	discourse
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 Ah	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dew	det
22	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beginning	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 beginning	aux
24	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fall	mark
26	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 beginning	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 poured	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pour out	past	Fred	the vinegar		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vinegar=Patient
2	drop	past	vinegar		on leaves = leaf	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory
3	say speech: express	past	the thieves			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	begin in a quote	present · progressive	the dew			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fall in a quote	to-infinitive	the dew not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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