Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 7

The steak soon began to look brown, and to crackle in the pan; and Catherine stood by with a fork and turned it: then she said to herself, ‘The steak is almost ready, I may as well go to the cellar for the ale.’

Who acts: steak, Catherine, I · What happens: begin, look, crackle, stand, turn, say · To what, where: pan, steak, Catherine, cellar · 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 (steak, Catherine, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steak	det
2	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crackle	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crackle	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 crackle	mark
11	crackle	crackle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 look	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 pan	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pan	det
14	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crackle	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Catherine	cc
17	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 fork	case
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 fork	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fork	det
22	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 turned	cc
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stood	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 turned	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 said	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stood	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 herself	case
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 said	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ready	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 ready	punct
34	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 steak	det
35	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ready	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 ready	cop
37	almost	almost	ADV	_	38 ready	advmod
38	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 said	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 ready	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 go	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 go	aux
42	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	44 go	cc
43	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 as	fixed
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 cellar	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 cellar	det
47	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 go	obl
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 ale	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 ale	det
50	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 go	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the steak					soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	look	to-infinitive	the steak not said here					brown property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	crackle	to-infinitive	the steak not said here			the pan			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pan=Location
4	stand	past	Catherine					by a fork	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fork=Location
5	turn	past	Catherine not said here	steak					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	Catherine		Catherine		then		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic
7	is	present	the steak					almost, ready property	tree rules
8	go	may	I			the cellar		for the ale	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cellar=Initial_Location

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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