Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 19

‘Yes,’ said the cook, and weighed her in his hand; ‘she has spared no trouble to fatten herself, and has been waiting to be roasted long enough.’

Who acts: queen · What happens: say, weigh, spare, fatten, wait, roast · To what, where: cook, queen, hand, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cook	det
7	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weighed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 weighed	cc
10	weighed	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 weighed	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weighed	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 spared	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 spared	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spared	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 spared	aux
19	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 weighed	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 trouble	det
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spared	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 fatten	mark
23	fatten	fatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 spared	advcl
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 fatten	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 waiting	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 waiting	cc
27	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 waiting	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 waiting	aux
29	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	32 roasted	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 roasted	aux:pass
32	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 waiting	advcl
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 roasted	advmod
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	32 roasted	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the cook			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cook=Topic
2	weigh	past		queen	king's hand		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme she=Value
3	spare	present · perfect	queen	no trouble			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent trouble=Asset
4	fatten	to-infinitive	queen not said here	queen			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
5	wait	present · perfect · progressive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	roast	to-infinitive · passive				enough, long property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»

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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