Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 19

‘What a lucky thing,’ said she, ‘that we kept that meal! we have now a good use for it.’

Who acts: Catherine, we · What happens: say, keep, have · To what, where: meal, good use · 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, we), 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 thing	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 thing	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 kept	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 kept	nsubj
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 meal	det
16	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 use	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 use	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 use	amod
23	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 use	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Catherine			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	keep	past	we	that meal		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Theme
3	have	present	we	a good use	for meal	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=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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