Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 2

One day Fred said, "I am now going into the fields, dear Catherine, and by the time I return let there be something hot upon the table, for I shall be hungry, and something to drink, too, for I shall be thirsty."

Who acts: Fred · What happens: say, go, return, let, be, drink · To what, where: something, fields · 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 (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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl:unmarked
3	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 going	advmod
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 fields	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fields	det
13	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 going	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Catherine	punct
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Catherine	amod
16	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fields	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 return	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 return	cc
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 return	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 return	nsubj
23	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 return	ccomp
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 let	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 something	cop
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 let	obj
28	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 something	amod
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 table	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 table	det
31	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hot	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hungry	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 hungry	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 hungry	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 hungry	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 hungry	cop
37	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 let	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 something	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 something	cc
40	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 said	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 drink	mark
42	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 something	acl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 too	punct
44	too	too	ADV	_	42 drink	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 thirsty	punct
46	for	for	SCONJ	_	50 thirsty	mark
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 thirsty	nsubj
48	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 thirsty	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 thirsty	cop
50	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 drink	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 something	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fred	something		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	Fred		the fields dear Catherine	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
3	return in a quote	present	Fred			time		tree rules
4	let in a quote	infinitive	Fred not said here		there			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	infinitive		something				tree rules
6	is in a quote	shall	Fred				hungry property	tree rules
7	drink in a quote	to-infinitive	Fred not said here	something not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is in a quote	shall	Fred				thirsty property	tree rules

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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