Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 56

‘Oh!’ answered she, ‘I used the butter to grease those poor trees that the wheels chafed so: and one of the cheeses ran away so I sent the other after it to find it, and I suppose they are both on the road together somewhere.’

Who acts: I, wheels, one, butter · What happens: answer, use, grease, chafe, run away, send · To what, where: other, butter, poor trees, cheese, road · 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 (I, wheels, one, butter), 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 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 answered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 used	nsubj
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 butter	det
12	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 used	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 grease	mark
14	grease	grease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	advcl
15	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 trees	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 trees	amod
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grease	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 chafed	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wheels	det
20	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 chafed	nsubj
21	chafed	chafe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 trees	acl:relcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	21 chafed	advmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ran	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ran	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 cheeses	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cheeses	det
28	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 ran	advmod
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 sent	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 sent	nsubj
33	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ran	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 other	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sent	obj
36	after	after	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sent	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 find	mark
39	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 sent	advcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 find	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 suppose	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 suppose	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 suppose	nsubj
44	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 road	nsubj
46	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 road	cop
47	both	both	ADV	_	50 road	advmod
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 road	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 road	det
50	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 suppose	ccomp
51	together	together	ADV	_	52 somewhere	advmod
52	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	50 road	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			other				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2	use	past	I	the butter					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butter=Patient
3	grease	to-infinitive	I not said here	that poor trees					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Destination
4	chafe	past	the wheels	that poor trees					vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Patient
5	run away	past	one of the cheeses					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	send	past	I	the other			after cheese		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
7	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	cheese					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
8	suppose	present	I						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
9	is	present	butter			the road		both, somewhere property	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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