Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 50

There stood before the door a large stone trough, and she said to Little Red-Cap, "Take this bucket, dear: yesterday I boiled some meat in this water, now pour it into the stone trough."

Who acts: villain · What happens: stand, say, take, boil, pour · To what, where: large stone trough, Little, bucket, meat, stone trough · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (villain), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 stood	expl
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trough	det
7	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trough	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trough	compound
9	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Little	case
15	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	obl
16	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Little	flat
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Cap	punct
18	Cap	Cap	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Little	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Take	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Take	punct
21	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 bucket	det
23	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Take	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dear	punct
25	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Take	vocative
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 boiled	punct
27	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boiled	obl:unmarked
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 boiled	nsubj
29	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 meat	det
31	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boiled	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 water	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boiled	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pour	punct
36	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 pour	advmod
37	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 boiled	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 pour	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	42 trough	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 trough	det
41	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 trough	compound
42	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pour	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a large stone trough		there	before the door		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	villain		Little and Cap				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to little=Recipient clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	infinitive		this bucket				dear vocative	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme
4	boil in a quote	past	villain	some meat			yesterday	in this water	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent meat=Patient in water=Instrument
5	pour in a quote	infinitive	villain not said here	meat		the stone trough	now		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into trough=Destination

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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