Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 37

Catherine stood considering for awhile, and presently she began, "Come, Fred, we will soon get the gold back again; let us pursue the thieves."

Who acts: Catherine, we, us · What happens: stand, consider, begin, come, get, let · To what, where: Fred, gold, us, thieves · 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, we, us), 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 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	considering	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 awhile	case
5	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	3 considering	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
8	presently	presently	ADV	_	10 began	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Come	punct
13	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Fred	punct
15	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 get	aux
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 get	advmod
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Come	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gold	det
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
23	back	back	ADV	_	24 again	advmod
24	again	again	ADV	_	20 get	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 thieves	det
30	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pursue	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Catherine				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	consider	gerund	Catherine not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	begin	past	Catherine			presently property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	come in a quote	infinitive		Fred			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get in a quote	future	we	the gold	again	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus
6	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
7	pursue in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	the thieves			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=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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