Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 31
When Fred returned, and saw the fresh decorations, he asked Catherine what she had done. "
Who acts: Fred, rogue, Catherine · What happens: return, see, ask, do · To what, where: fresh decorations, Catherine · 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, rogue, 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 | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 decorations | det |
| 8 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 decorations | amod |
| 9 | decorations | decoration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 done | obj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Fred | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Fred not said here | the fresh decorations | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer decoration=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | rogue | Catherine | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent catherine=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | Catherine | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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