Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 6

When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry.

Who acts: dinner time, Catherine, nice steak · What happens: draw, take, be, have, put, fry · To what, where: nice steak, meat, steak, fire

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 (dinner time, Catherine, nice steak), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 drew	advmod
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 dinner	punct
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drew	nsubj
5	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	advcl
6	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	5 drew	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 drew	punct
8	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 steak	det
11	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 steak	amod
12	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 meat	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 meat	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 meat	cop
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 meat	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 meat	det
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steak	nmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 meat	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 took	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 put	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 fire	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fire	det
27	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fry	mark
29	fry	fry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 put	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	dinner time			nigh property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	Catherine	a nice steak			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steak=Theme
3	is a	past	a nice steak	all meat			tree rules
4	have	past	Catherine	all meat not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
5	put	infinitive	Catherine not said here	steak	the fire		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination
6	fry	to-infinitive	Catherine not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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