Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 15
When it was done she was quite overjoyed at her work, and said, "How clean and neat it does look, to be sure!"
Who acts: Catherine · What happens: do, overjoy, say, look, be, work · To what, where: sack, Catherine, work · 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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 look | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 overjoyed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 overjoyed | advmod |
| 8 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 done | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 work | nmod:poss |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overjoyed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clean | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 clean | punct |
| 17 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 clean | advmod |
| 18 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 neat | cc |
| 20 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 clean | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 clean | nsubj |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | aux |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sure | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sure | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sure | cop |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 look | conj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | sack | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | overjoy | past · passive | Catherine | Catherine's work | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | look in a quote | present · do-support | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | work | Catherine | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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