Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 12
Then she went and put the fowls down again to the fire, basted them, and drove the spit merrily round.
Who acts: Gretel · What happens: go, put down, baste, drive · To what, where: fowls, spit
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gretel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fowls | det |
| 7 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 basted | punct |
| 14 | basted | baste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 basted | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drove | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drove | cc |
| 18 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spit | det |
| 20 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drove | obj |
| 21 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 22 round | advmod |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 18 drove | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Gretel | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put down | infinitive | Gretel not said here | the fowls | again | to the fire; down property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fowl=Goal | ||
| 3 | baste | past | Gretel not said here | fowls = fowl | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | Gretel not said here | the spit | round property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme spit=Trajectory |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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