Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 11
My gracious!" she exclaimed; "what shall I do that Fred may not find this out?"
Who acts: Catherine, I, Fred · What happens: exclaim, do, not find out · To what, where: this · 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, I, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gracious | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 gracious | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 gracious | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 14 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 find | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 find | advmod |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 do | advcl |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 find | compound:prt |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | Catherine | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | shall | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not find out | may | Fred | this | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
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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