Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 62

Catherine did as he told her, and thought to herself by the way, ‘Frederick wants something to eat; but I don’t think he is very fond of butter and cheese: I’ll bring him a bag of fine nuts, and the vinegar, for I have often seen him take some.’

Who acts: Catherine, husband, Frederick, I · What happens: do, tell, think, want, eat, not think · To what, where: Catherine, something, vinegar, bag, husband, some · 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, husband, Frederick, I), 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	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 herself	case
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 thought	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wants	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 wants	punct
17	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 wants	nsubj
18	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 way	acl:relcl
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 wants	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 eat	mark
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 something	acl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 think	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 think	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 think	advmod
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fond	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fond	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 fond	advmod
31	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 think	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 butter	case
33	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fond	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cheese	cc
35	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 butter	conj
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 ’ll	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 ’ll	nsubj
38	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
39	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ’ll	xcomp
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 bring	obj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 bag	det
42	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bring	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 nuts	case
44	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 nuts	amod
45	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 bag	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 vinegar	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 vinegar	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 vinegar	det
49	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ’ll	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 seen	punct
51	for	for	SCONJ	_	55 seen	mark
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 seen	nsubj
53	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 seen	aux
54	often	often	ADV	_	55 seen	advmod
55	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 ’ll	advcl
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 seen	obj
57	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 seen	xcomp
58	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	57 take	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Catherine				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	husband		Catherine		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	think speech: other	participle	Catherine not said here		Catherine	by the way	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	want	present	Frederick	something			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
5	eat	to-infinitive	Frederick not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	husband			of butter and cheese; fond property	tree rules
8	'll	past	I	the vinegar			tree rules
9	bring	infinitive	I not said here	a bag of fine nuts	husband		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bag=Theme
10	see	present · perfect	I	husband		often property	tree rules
11	take	infinitive	husband not said here	some			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme

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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