Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 5

She killed two fowls, scalded them, plucked them, put them on the spit, and towards evening set them before the fire, that they might roast.

Who acts: Gretel, fowls · What happens: kill, scald, pluck, put, set, roast · To what, where: two fowls, fowls, spit, fire

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, fowls), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fowls	nummod
4	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 killed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scalded	punct
6	scalded	scald	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scalded	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plucked	punct
9	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scalded	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 plucked	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
12	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 plucked	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 put	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 spit	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spit	det
16	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 set	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 set	cc
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 evening	case
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obl
21	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 set	obj
23	before	before	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 roast	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 roast	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 roast	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 roast	aux
30	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 set	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	kill	past	Gretel	two fowls			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Theme
2	scald	past	Gretel not said here	fowls = fowl			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	pluck	past	Gretel not said here	fowls = fowl			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	put	infinitive	Gretel not said here	fowls = fowl	the spit		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on spit=Destination
5	set	past	Gretel not said here	fowls = fowl	the fire	evening	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before fire=Destination
6	roast	might	fowls = fowl				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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