Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 22

Then she strewed the meal all about the cellar, and was quite pleased with her cleverness, and said, ‘How very neat and clean it looks!’

Who acts: Catherine, meal · What happens: strew, be, say, look · To what, where: meal · 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, meal), 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 strewed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strewed	nsubj
3	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meal	det
5	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strewed	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 cellar	advmod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 cellar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cellar	det
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strewed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pleased	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pleased	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pleased	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 pleased	advmod
14	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 strewed	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 cleverness	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cleverness	nmod:poss
17	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pleased	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 strewed	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 neat	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 neat	punct
23	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 neat	advmod
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 neat	advmod
25	neat	neat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 looks	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 clean	cc
27	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 neat	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 looks	nsubj
29	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	ccomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 looks	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	strew	past	Catherine	the meal	then	about the cellar	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meal=Theme about cellar=Destination
2	is	past	Catherine not said here			with Catherine's cleverness; pleased property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Catherine not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	present	meal				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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