Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 109

But Catherine, stepping in front of the houses, called out, "Good people, what have you that we can steal?"

Who acts: Catherine, you, we · What happens: step, call out, have, steal · To what, where: front, Catherine, Good people · 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, you, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 called	cc
2	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 called	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stepping	punct
4	stepping	step	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Catherine	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepping	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 houses	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 houses	det
9	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 front	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 called	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 people	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 people	punct
15	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 called	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 have	obj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 people	acl:relcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 steal	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 steal	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 steal	aux
24	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	advcl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	step	gerund	Catherine not said here		front of the houses	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory
2	call out speech: ask	participle · passive		Catherine		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	have in a quote	present	you	Good people		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
4	steal in a quote	can	we			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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