Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 98

She determined to eat, and soon became so sleepy over her meal that when she began to cut she knew not what she was doing, and cut off half her clothes--gown, petticoat and all.

Who acts: Fred · What happens: determine, eat, become, begin, cut, not know · To what, where: meal

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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 determined	nsubj
2	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 determined	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 became	cc
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 became	advmod
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 determined	conj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 sleepy	advmod
10	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 became	xcomp
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 meal	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 meal	nmod:poss
13	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleepy	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 began	obj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 began	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 began	nsubj
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 meal	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 cut	mark
19	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	ccomp
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 knew	advmod
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 knew	obj
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 doing	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 doing	aux
26	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 what	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cut	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cut	cc
29	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 determined	parataxis
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 cut	compound:prt
31	half	half	ADP	_	33 clothes	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 clothes	nmod:poss
33	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	29 cut	obl
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 gown	punct
35	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clothes	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 petticoat	punct
37	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 clothes	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 all	cc
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 cut	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	past	Fred			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	to-infinitive	Fred not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	Fred not said here		sleepy, soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	begin	past	Fred	Fred's meal		tree rules
5	cut	to-infinitive	Fred not said here			tree rules
6	not know	past	Fred			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
7	do	past · progressive	Fred			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	cut off	participle			half Fred's clothes and gown and petticoat	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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