Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 23
So she ran into the cellar again, took an enormous drink and ate up the one chicken in great glee.
Who acts: Gretel · What happens: run, take, eat up · To what, where: cellar, enormous drink, one chicken, great glee
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 cellar | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cellar | det |
| 6 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 drink | det |
| 11 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 drink | amod |
| 12 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ate | cc |
| 14 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 ate | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chicken | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chicken | compound |
| 18 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ate | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 glee | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 glee | amod |
| 21 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ate | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Gretel | again | into the cellar result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cellar=Result | |||
| 2 | take | past | Gretel not said here | a enormous drink | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat up | past | Gretel not said here | the one chicken | great glee | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Patient |
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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