Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 7

Then Gretel called out to her master: ‘If the guest does not come, I must take the fowls away from the fire, but it will be a sin and a shame if they are not eaten the moment they are at their juiciest.’

Who acts: guest, I, fowls · What happens: call out, not come, take, be, not eat · To what, where: Gretel, master, fowls, sin

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 (guest, I, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
2	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj:pass
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 called	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 master	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
10	If	if	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guest	det
12	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 take	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fowls	det
21	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 take	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	19 take	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fire	det
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 away	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sin	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 sin	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sin	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 sin	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 sin	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sin	det
32	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 shame	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 shame	det
35	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sin	conj
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 eaten	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 eaten	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 eaten	aux:pass
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 eaten	advmod
40	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 take	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 moment	det
42	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eaten	obj
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 juiciest	nsubj
44	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 juiciest	cop
45	at	at	ADP	_	47 juiciest	case
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 juiciest	nmod:poss
47	juiciest	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 eaten	parataxis
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle · passive		Gretel	Gretel's master	then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to master=Recipient
2	not come a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	the guest					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	must	I	the fowls			away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Theme
4	is a	future	guest	a sin and a shame				tree rules
5	not eat a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		fowls = fowl		moment		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	is	present	fowls = fowl				juicy property	tree rules

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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