Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 11

We baked the meat yesterday, so that grandmother, who is very weak, might have a nice strengthening meal."

Who acts: We, grandmother · What happens: bake, be, have, strengthen · To what, where: meat, nice strengthening meal

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, grandmother), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 baked	nsubj
2	baked	bake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meat	det
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 baked	obj
5	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 baked	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 grandmother	mark
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 weak	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 weak	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 weak	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 weak	advmod
14	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grandmother	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 grandmother	punct
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 baked	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 meal	det
19	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meal	amod
20	strengthening	strengthen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 meal	amod
21	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bake	past	We	the meat	yesterday		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Product
2	is	present	grandmother			weak property	tree rules
3	have	might		a nice strengthening meal			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
4	strengthen	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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