Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 35
"Well, dear Fred," replied his wife, "you should have told me so before.
Who acts: dear Fred · What happens: reply, tell · To what, where: wife, you, dear 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 (dear 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fred | amod |
| 5 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fred | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fred | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 told | aux |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 replied | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 before | advmod |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 told | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | dear Fred | rogue's wife | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | should · perfect · passive | you | dear Fred = fred | before property | 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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