Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 18
So she thought a while; and at last remembered that there was a sack of fine meal bought at the last fair, and that if she sprinkled this over the floor it would suck up the ale nicely.
Who acts: Catherine, sack · What happens: think, remember, be, buy, sprinkle, suck up · To what, where: last, fine meal, last fair, this, floor, ale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, sack), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 remembered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 remembered | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remembered | obl |
| 10 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 was | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 remembered | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sack | det |
| 15 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 meal | case |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 meal | amod |
| 18 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sack | nmod |
| 19 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 meal | acl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 fair | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fair | det |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fair | amod |
| 23 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bought | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 suck | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 suck | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 suck | mark |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 sprinkled | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 29 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 suck | advcl |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 sprinkled | obj |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 floor | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 floor | det |
| 33 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sprinkled | obl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 suck | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 suck | aux |
| 36 | suck | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 remembered | parataxis |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 suck | compound:prt |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ale | det |
| 39 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 suck | obj |
| 40 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 36 suck | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Catherine | while | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remember | participle | last | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | a sack of fine meal | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | buy | participle | fine meal not said here | the last fair | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sprinkle a condition, not said to happen | past | Catherine | this | the floor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme over floor=Destination | |||
| 6 | suck up | would | sack | the ale | nicely property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ale=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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