Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 27
Why did you leave the steak to fry, and the ale to run, and then spoil all the meal?’
Who acts: you, ale · What happens: leave, fry, run, spoil · To what, where: steak, meal
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 (you, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 leave | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 steak | det |
| 6 | steak | steak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 fry | case |
| 8 | fry | fry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 run | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ale | det |
| 12 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 run | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 run | mark |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spoil | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spoil | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 spoil | advmod |
| 18 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 run | conj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 meal | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meal | det |
| 21 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spoil | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | you | the steak | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steak=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fry | infinitive | you not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | the ale | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spoil | infinitive | the ale not said here | all meal | then | tree rules |
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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