Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 81

So she poured all the vinegar down; and the thieves said, ‘What a heavy dew there is!’

Who acts: Catherine, thieves · What happens: pour down, say, be · To what, where: vinegar · 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, thieves), 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 poured	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poured	nsubj
3	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 vinegar	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vinegar	det
6	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poured	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	3 poured	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thieves	det
11	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 poured	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 What	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 What	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 said	ccomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dew	det
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dew	amod
18	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 is	nsubj
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 is	expl
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 What	cop
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 poured	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pour down	past	Catherine	all vinegar	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vinegar=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the thieves		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present			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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