Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 19
"Oh, Catherine, Catherine!" said Fred; "you should not have done so! to let the sausage be stolen! and the beer run out! and over all to shoot our best sack of malt!"
Who acts: Catherine, you, beer · What happens: say, not do, let, steal, run out, shoot · To what, where: sausage, best sack · 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, beer), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 Catherine | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Catherine | punct |
| 6 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Catherine | appos |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Catherine | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Catherine | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 done | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 done | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 let | mark |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sausage | det |
| 23 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stolen | nsubj |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 stolen | aux:pass |
| 25 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 let | xcomp |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 run | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 beer | det |
| 29 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 run | nsubj |
| 30 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 run | compound:prt |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 shoot | cc |
| 34 | over | over | ADV | _ | 35 all | advmod |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 37 shoot | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 shoot | mark |
| 37 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 38 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sack | nmod:poss |
| 39 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 sack | amod |
| 40 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 shoot | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 malt | case |
| 42 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sack | nmod |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 shoot | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Catherine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | should · perfect | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | steal in a quote | infinitive · passive | the sausage | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run out in a quote | infinitive | the beer | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | shoot in a quote | to-infinitive | Catherine not said here | our best sack of malt | all property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=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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