Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 9

When the master had turned his back, Gretel laid the spit with the fowls on one side, and thought: ‘Standing so long by the fire there, makes one sweat and thirsty; who knows when they will come?

Who acts: Gretel, Standing, fowls · What happens: turn, lay, think, stand, make, know · To what, where: master, spit, one side, one sweat · 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, Standing, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 turned	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 laid	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
9	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 laid	nsubj
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spit	det
12	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 fowls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fowls	det
15	fowls	fowls	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spit	nmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 side	nummod
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laid	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 Standing	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Standing	punct
24	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 makes	csubj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 long	advmod
26	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 Standing	advmod
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 fire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fire	det
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Standing	obl
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 fire	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 makes	punct
32	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	ccomp
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 sweat	nummod
34	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 makes	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 thirsty	cc
36	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sweat	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 knows	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 knows	nsubj
39	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 makes	conj
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 come	advmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 come	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 come	aux
43	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 knows	ccomp
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect · passive		the master			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme back=Result
2	lay	past	Gretel	the spit	one side	with the fowls	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spit=Theme on side=Destination
3	think speech: other	past	Gretel not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	stand	gerund				by the fire; long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
5	make	present	Standing	one sweat			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sweat=Product
6	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	come	future	fowls = fowl				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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