Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 163

"In such and such a house; you must creep into it through the kitchen-sink; you will find cakes, and bacon, and sausages, and as much of them as you can eat," and he described to him exactly his father's house.

Who acts: you, wolf · What happens: creep, find, eat, describe · To what, where: stomach, cakes, house, pastor

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wolf), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 house	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
3	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 house	cc
5	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 house	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 creep	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 creep	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 creep	aux
11	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 house	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 creep	obl
14	through	through	ADP	_	18 sink	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sink	det
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sink	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 kitchen	punct
18	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 creep	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 find	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 find	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 find	aux
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 creep	parataxis
23	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 find	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bacon	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bacon	cc
26	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cakes	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sausages	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sausages	cc
29	sausages	sausage	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cakes	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 much	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 much	cc
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 find	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 much	nmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 eat	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 eat	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 eat	aux
39	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 much	acl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 eat	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 eat	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 described	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 described	nsubj
44	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 eat	conj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 described	obl
47	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	51 house	advmod
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 father	nmod:poss
49	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 house	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 father	case
51	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 described	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 house	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep in a quote	must	you			stomach	through the kitchen sink	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
2	find in a quote	future	you	cakes and bacon and sausages				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Topic
3	eat in a quote	can	you					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	describe	past	wolf	wolf's father's house	pastor			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to he=be'

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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