Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 18
So she cut it off, ate it, and enjoyed it, and when she had done, she thought: ‘The other must go down too, or else master will observe that something is missing.’
Who acts: Gretel, other, master, something · What happens: cut off, eat, enjoy, do, think, go down · To what, where: One · Speech: someone speaks here
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, other, master, something), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 cut | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cut | obj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 cut | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ate | punct |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enjoyed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 enjoyed | cc |
| 11 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 enjoyed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thought | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 done | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 done | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 thought | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thought | nsubj |
| 21 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 go | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 other | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 go | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 go | aux |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thought | ccomp |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 observe | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 observe | cc |
| 32 | else | else | ADV | _ | 33 master | advmod |
| 33 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 observe | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 observe | aux |
| 35 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 go | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 missing | mark |
| 37 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 39 missing | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 missing | cop |
| 39 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 observe | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past | Gretel | One | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | Gretel not said here | One | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | past | Gretel not said here | One | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | Gretel | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Gretel | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go down | must | the other | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | observe | future | master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | present | something | missing property | tree rules |
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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