--- title: She determined to eat, and soon became so sleepy over her meal that… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: She determined to eat, and soon became so sleepy over her meal that when she began to cut she knew not what she was doing, and cut off half her clothes--gown, petticoat and all. Who acts: Fred. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fred), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:12:98 # text = She determined to eat, and soon became so sleepy over her meal that when she began to cut she knew not what she was doing, and cut off half her clothes--gown, petticoat and all. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 8 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 obj _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 30 off off ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 half half ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 -- -- PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 petticoat petticoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | past | Fred | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Fred *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **become** | past | Fred *not said here* | | | | | sleepy, soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **begin** | past | Fred | Fred's meal | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cut** | to-infinitive | Fred *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **know** | past | Fred | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 7 | **do** | past · progressive | Fred | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **cut off** | participle | | | | | | half Fred's clothes and gown and petticoat | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/12/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/12/99/) - ↑ back to [Catherine and Frederick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/12/)