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description: When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry. Who acts: dinner time, Catherine, nice steak. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 6

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When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry.

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**Who acts:** dinner time, Catherine, nice steak · **What happens:** draw, take, be, have, put, fry · **To what, where:** nice steak, meat, steak, fire

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dinner time, Catherine, nice steak), 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:pg2591:29:6
# text = When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	steak	steak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fry	fry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | dinner time |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | Catherine | a nice steak |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steak=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a nice steak | all meat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Catherine | all meat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | steak |  | the fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 6 | **fry** | to-infinitive | Catherine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «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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