Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 210

‘You must be a witch, Cat-skin,’ said the cook; ‘for you always put something into your soup, so that it pleases the king better than mine.’

Who acts: You, cook, soup · What happens: be, say, put, please · To what, where: witch, something, soup, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, cook, soup), 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	_	6 witch	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 witch	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 witch	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 witch	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 skin	punct
8	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skin	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Cat	punct
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 witch	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cook	det
15	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 pleases	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 pleases	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 put	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 put	advmod
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 pleases	advcl
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 put	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 soup	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 soup	nmod:poss
25	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pleases	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 pleases	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pleases	nsubj
30	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pleases	obj
33	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 pleases	advmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	35 mine	case
35	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 better	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 pleases	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 pleases	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	must	You	a witch and Cat skin			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the cook				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	put	present	you	something	your soup	always property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent something=Goal
4	please	present	soup	the king		well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer

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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