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title: Soon the sausage began to frizzle and spit while Catherine stood by… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon the sausage began to frizzle and spit while Catherine stood by holding the handle of the pan and thinking; and among other things she thought that while the sausage was getting ready she might go into the cellar and draw some beer. Who acts: sausage, Catherine. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stor
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 5

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Soon the sausage began to frizzle and spit while Catherine stood by holding the handle of the pan and thinking; and among other things she thought that while the sausage was getting ready she might go into the cellar and draw some beer.

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**Who acts:** sausage, Catherine · **What happens:** begin, stand, hold, think, get, go · **To what, where:** frizzle, handle, cellar, beer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sausage, Catherine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11027:12:5
# text = Soon the sausage began to frizzle and spit while Catherine stood by holding the handle of the pan and thinking; and among other things she thought that while the sausage was getting ready she might go into the cellar and draw some beer.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	frizzle	frizzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pan	pan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	thinking	thinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sausage	sausage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
34	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
43	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the sausage | frizzle and spit |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frizzle=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | Catherine *not said here* | the handle of the pan and thinking |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handle=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Catherine |  |  |  |  | among other things | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | past · progressive | the sausage |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **go** | might | Catherine |  |  | the cellar |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cellar=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **draw** | infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | some beer |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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