Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 18

So they sat down, and when Dummling pulled out his cinder-cake, it was a fine sweet cake, and the sour beer had become good wine.

Who acts: cake, Dummling, beer, sour beer · What happens: sit down, pull out, be, become · To what, where: cinder cake, fine sweet cake, good wine

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cake, Dummling, beer, sour beer), 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 sat	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pulled	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 pulled	advmod
8	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pulled	nsubj
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 pulled	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cake	nmod:poss
12	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cake	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 cinder	punct
14	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulled	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cake	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cake	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cake	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 cake	det
19	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cake	amod
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cake	amod
21	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 become	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 beer	det
25	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beer	amod
26	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 become	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
28	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sat	conj
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wine	amod
30	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 become	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sit down	past	cake		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull out	past	Dummling	Dummling's cinder cake	tree rules
3	is a	past	beer	a fine sweet cake	tree rules
4	become	past · perfect	the sour beer	good wine	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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