Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 8
So she left the pan on the fire and took a large jug and went into the cellar and tapped the ale cask.
Who acts: Catherine · What happens: leave, take, go, tap · To what, where: pan, fire, large jug, cellar, ale cask
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pan | det |
| 5 | pan | pan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 jug | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 jug | amod |
| 13 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 cellar | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cellar | det |
| 18 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tapped | cc |
| 20 | tapped | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cask | det |
| 22 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cask | compound |
| 23 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tapped | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Catherine | the pan | the fire | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pan=Theme on fire=Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | Catherine not said here | a large jug | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jug=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Catherine not said here | the cellar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cellar=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tap | past | Catherine not said here | the ale cask | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent cask=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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