Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 39
"Yes, Fred," said she, and soon made herself ready; but, her husband being a good walker, she lagged behind. "
Who acts: Fred, husband · What happens: say, make, be, lag behind · To what, where: Fred, good walker · 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, husband), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | 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 | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 made | advmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 lagged | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 lagged | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 walker | punct |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 husband | nmod:poss |
| 19 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walker | nsubj |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 walker | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 walker | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 walker | amod |
| 23 | walker | walker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lagged | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 walker | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lagged | nsubj |
| 26 | lagged | lag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 27 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 26 lagged | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fred | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Fred not said here | Fred | ready, soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product | |||
| 3 | is a | gerund | Fred's husband | a good walker | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lag behind | past | Fred | behind property | tree rules |
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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