Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 3

It came to pass that the master one day said to her: ‘Gretel, there is a guest coming this evening; prepare me two fowls very daintily.’

Who acts: food, master, guest · What happens: come, pass, say, be, prepare · To what, where: Gretel, cook, two fowls, me · 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 (food, master, guest), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pass	mark
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 master	det
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 master	nmod:unmarked
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pass	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Gretel	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Gretel	punct
15	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Gretel	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 guest	det
20	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 is	nsubj
21	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 guest	acl
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 evening	det
23	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 coming	obl:unmarked
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 prepare	punct
25	prepare	prepare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 prepare	obj
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 fowls	nummod
28	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 prepare	obj
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 daintily	advmod
30	daintily	daintily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 prepare	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 prepare	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 prepare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	food	Gretel				tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	food not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the master one day		cook			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	be	present	a guest	Gretel not said here		there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gretel=Theme
5	come	gerund	a guest not said here				evening	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	prepare	infinitive		two fowls	me			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary fowl=Product

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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