Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 23

Catherine promised to mind what he said, but as soon as Fred was gone some hawkers came into the village with earthenware for sale, and amongst others they asked her if she would purchase anything. "

Who acts: Catherine, husband, Fred, gone, hawkers · What happens: promise, mind, say, be, come, ask · To what, where: village, Fred, anything · 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, husband, Fred, gone), 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	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 mind	mark
4	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mind	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gone	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 gone	cc
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 gone	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 gone	mark
13	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 gone	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gone	cop
15	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 came	nsubj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 hawkers	det
17	hawkers	hawker	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gone	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	parataxis
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 village	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 village	det
21	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 earthenware	case
23	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 village	nmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 sale	case
25	sale	sale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 earthenware	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 asked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 asked	cc
28	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	29 others	case
29	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 asked	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 asked	nsubj
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	parataxis
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 asked	obj
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 purchase	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 purchase	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 purchase	aux
36	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 asked	ccomp
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 purchase	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Catherine					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mind not said to happen	to-infinitive	Catherine not said here					vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	husband					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	is	past	Fred				gone, soon property	tree rules
5	come	past	gone			the village with earthenware for sale		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into village=Initial_Location
6	ask speech: ask	past	hawkers = hawker		Fred		amongst others	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
7	purchase a condition, not said to happen	would	Fred	anything				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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