Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 36

‘Yes,’ said she, ‘he has taken the chickens which I was just going to serve up, off the dish, and has run away with them!’

Who acts: Gretel, two, chickens · What happens: say, take, go, serve up, run away · 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, two, chickens), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 taken	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 taken	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chickens	det
13	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 going	nsubj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 going	nsubj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 taken	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 serve	mark
20	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 going	xcomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 serve	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dish	punct
23	off	off	ADP	_	25 dish	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dish	det
25	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 serve	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 run	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 run	cc
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 run	aux
29	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 run	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 run	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 run	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Gretel		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	present · perfect	two		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past · progressive	the chickens		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	serve up	to-infinitive	the chickens not said here	off the dish	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
5	run away	present · perfect		with steps = step; away property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with they=Material

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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