Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 14
It is all right," said she, "where one is, the other should be," and she strewed the malt over the whole cellar.
Who acts: sack, Catherine · What happens: be, say, strew · To what, where: malt, whole cellar · 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 (sack, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | acl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 where | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 where | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 be | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 strewed | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 strewed | nsubj |
| 23 | strewed | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 malt | det |
| 25 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 strewed | obj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 cellar | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cellar | det |
| 28 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cellar | amod |
| 29 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 strewed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sack | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | strew in a quote | past | Catherine | the malt | the whole cellar | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent malt=Theme over cellar=Destination |
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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