Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 20

"Well, Fred," said she, "I did not know that; you should have told me."

Who acts: Fred · What happens: say, not know, tell · To what, where: that, you, Fred · 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Fred	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Fred	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 know	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj:pass
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 told	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	aux
20	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 know	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fred			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not know in a quote	past · do-support	Fred	that		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	should · perfect · passive		you	Fred	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=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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