Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 97

When she was come into the field she said to herself, "Shall I eat before I cut, or sleep first before I cut?"

Who acts: Fred · What happens: come, say, eat, cut · To what, where: Fred, field, sleep · 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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux:pass
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 field	det
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 herself	case
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
14	Shall	shall	INTJ	_	16 eat	discourse
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
16	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 cut	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 cut	nsubj
19	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sleep	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 sleep	cc
22	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obj
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 cut	advmod
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 cut	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 cut	nsubj
26	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	advcl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · passive		Fred		the field		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Fred		Fred			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	eat in a quote	present	Fred					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cut in a quote	present	Fred	sleep			first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Product
5	cut in a quote	present	Fred					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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