Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 20

So away she went for it: but she managed to set it down just upon the great jug full of beer, and upset it; and thus all the ale that had been saved was set swimming on the floor also.

Who acts: Catherine · What happens: go, manage, set down, upset, save, set · To what, where: meal, great jug, ale, floor

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), 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	_	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 managed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 managed	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 managed	nsubj
10	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 set	mark
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 managed	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 set	obj
14	down	down	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
15	just	just	ADV	_	19 jug	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 jug	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 jug	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 jug	amod
19	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 set	obl
20	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 jug	amod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 beer	case
22	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 full	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 upset	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 upset	cc
25	upset	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 managed	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 upset	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 set	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 set	cc
29	thus	thus	ADV	_	30 all	advmod
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 ale	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ale	det
32	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 set	nsubj:pass
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 saved	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 saved	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 saved	aux:pass
36	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 ale	acl:relcl
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 set	aux:pass
38	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	conj
39	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 set	xcomp
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 floor	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 floor	det
42	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 swimming	obl
43	also	also	ADV	_	39 swimming	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Catherine			for meal; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary
2	manage	past	Catherine				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	set down	to-infinitive	Catherine not said here	meal	the great jug		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon jug=Destination
4	upset	past	Catherine not said here	meal			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
5	save	past · perfect · passive		all ale			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	set	past · passive		all ale			tree rules
7	swim	gerund			the floor		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory

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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