Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 28

Meantime the master looked to see that the table was properly laid, and took the great knife, wherewith he was going to carve the chickens, and sharpened it on the steps.

Who acts: you, master · What happens: meantime, look, see, lay, take, go · To what, where: table, great knife, chickens, knife · 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 (you, master), 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	Meantime	meantime	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Meantime	parataxis
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 looked	xcomp
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 laid	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 table	det
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laid	aux:pass
11	properly	properly	ADV	_	12 laid	advmod
12	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 see	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Meantime	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 knife	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 knife	amod
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
20	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	PronType=Int	23 going	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 took	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 carve	mark
25	carve	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chickens	det
27	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carve	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sharpened	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sharpened	cc
30	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sharpened	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 steps	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 steps	det
34	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sharpened	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Meantime	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meantime	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	look	past	the master			tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the master not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	lay	past · passive		the table	properly property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
5	take	past		the great knife		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
6	go	past · progressive	master		wherewith property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	carve	to-infinitive	master not said here	the chickens		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme
8	sharpen	past		knife	on the steps	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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