Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 2
And when she came home she drank, in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted the best of whatever she was cooking until she was satisfied, and said: ‘The cook must know what the food is like.’
Who acts: cook, wine, food · What happens: come, drink, excite, eat, taste, cook · To what, where: gladness, desire, best · 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 (cook, wine, food), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drank | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drank | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drank | nsubj |
| 7 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gladness | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 gladness | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gladness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drank | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gladness | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 draught | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 draught | det |
| 16 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gladness | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wine | case |
| 18 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 draught | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tasted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tasted | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 excites | mark |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 excites | nsubj |
| 23 | excites | excite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 tasted | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 desire | det |
| 25 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 excites | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 eat | mark |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 desire | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 excites | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 tasted | nsubj |
| 30 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drank | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 best | det |
| 32 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 tasted | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 whatever | case |
| 34 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 best | nmod |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 cooking | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 cooking | aux |
| 37 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 38 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 41 satisfied | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 satisfied | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 satisfied | cop |
| 41 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 cooking | advcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 said | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 said | cc |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drank | conj |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 50 know | punct |
| 46 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 know | punct |
| 47 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 cook | det |
| 48 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 know | nsubj |
| 49 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 know | aux |
| 50 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 said | ccomp |
| 51 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 55 like | obj |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 food | det |
| 53 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 like | nsubj |
| 54 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 like | cop |
| 55 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 know | ccomp |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 know | punct |
| 57 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | cook | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | cook | cook's gladness of heart and a draught of wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gladness=Patient | ||||
| 3 | excite | present | wine | a desire | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus desire=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | wine not said here | a desire not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | taste | past | cook | the best of whatever | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme good=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | cook | past · progressive | cook | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | cook | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | cook not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | know | must | the cook | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | is | present | the food | like 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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