Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 25

‘O Frederick!’ answered she, ‘I was cooking you a steak; but while I went down to draw the ale, the dog ran away with it; and while I ran after him, the ale ran out; and when I went to dry up the ale with the sack of meal that we got at the fair, I upset the jug: but the cellar is now quite dry, and looks so clean!’

Who acts: Frederick, I, dog, ale, we, cellar · What happens: answer, cook, go down, draw, run away, run · To what, where: wife, steak, you, ale, sack, fair

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 (Frederick, I, dog, ale), 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	_	3 Frederick	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	3 Frederick	discourse
3	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Frederick	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Frederick	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cooking	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 cooking	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 cooking	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cooking	aux
12	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 answered	advcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 cooking	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 steak	det
15	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cooking	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 went	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 draw	mark
23	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 went	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ale	det
25	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 draw	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dog	det
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ran	nsubj
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ale	acl:relcl
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 ran	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ran	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 ran	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 ran	cc
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 ran	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 ran	nsubj
37	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 ran	advcl
38	after	after	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 ran	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ran	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 ale	det
42	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ran	nsubj
43	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	conj
44	out	out	ADP	_	43 ran	compound:prt
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 went	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 went	cc
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 went	advmod
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 went	nsubj
49	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
50	to	to	PART	_	51 dry	mark
51	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 went	xcomp
52	up	up	ADP	_	51 dry	compound:prt
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 ale	det
54	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 dry	obj
55	with	with	ADP	_	57 sack	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 sack	det
57	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 ale	nmod
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 meal	case
59	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 sack	nmod
60	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	62 got	obl
61	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	62 got	nsubj
62	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 sack	acl:relcl
63	at	at	ADP	_	65 fair	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 fair	det
65	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 got	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 upset	punct
67	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	68 upset	nsubj
68	upset	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 went	conj
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 jug	det
70	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 upset	obj
71	:	:	PUNCT	_	78 dry	punct
72	but	but	CCONJ	_	78 dry	cc
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 cellar	det
74	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 dry	nsubj
75	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	78 dry	cop
76	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	78 dry	advmod
77	quite	quite	ADV	_	78 dry	advmod
78	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 upset	conj
79	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 looks	punct
80	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 looks	cc
81	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
82	so	so	ADV	_	83 clean	advmod
83	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 looks	xcomp
84	!	!	PUNCT	_	83 clean	punct
85	’	'	PUNCT	_	81 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Frederick		wife				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2	cook	past · progressive	I	a steak	you				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary steak=Product
3	go down	past	I					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	draw	to-infinitive	I not said here	the ale					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Theme
5	run away	past	the dog	the ale not said here				with ale; away property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Product with it=Material
6	run	past	I				after dog		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	run out	past	the ale						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go	past	I						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	dry up	to-infinitive	I not said here	the ale				with the sack of meal	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ale=Patient with sack=Instrument
10	get	past	we	the sack of meal		the fair			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
11	upset	past	I	the jug					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jug=Experiencer
12	is	present	the cellar				now	dry property	tree rules
13	look	present						clean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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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