Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 107

Standing outside Catherine found some thieves, wanting to steal, and going up to them she said, "I will help you."

Who acts: Standing, Catherine · What happens: stand, find, want, steal, go up, say · To what, where: Catherine, thieves, you · 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 (Standing, Catherine), 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	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 found	csubj
2	outside	outside	ADP	_	3 Catherine	case
3	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 thieves	det
6	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wanting	punct
8	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 found	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 steal	mark
10	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanting	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 said	ccomp
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 help	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 help	aux
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stand	gerund				Catherine	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside catherine=Location
2	find	past	Standing	some thieves			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic
3	want	gerund	Standing not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	Standing not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go up	gerund			thieves = thief		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	say speech: assert	past	Catherine				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	help in a quote	future	Catherine		you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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