Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 102
By and by night came on, and Catherine ran into the village, and, knocking at her husband's window, called, "Fred!"
Who acts: Catherine, knocking · What happens: come on, run, knock, call · To what, where: village · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Catherine, knocking), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 by | cc |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 1 By | conj |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 9 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 village | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 village | det |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 called | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knocking | punct |
| 17 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 called | csubj:pass |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 window | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knocking | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fred | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fred | punct |
| 27 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fred | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come on | past | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | Catherine | into the village result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into village=Result | ||||
| 3 | knock | gerund | at Catherine's husband's window | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at window=Patient | |||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | participle | knocking | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
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