Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 40

Ah!" said she, "this is my luck, for when we turn back I shall be a good bit forward."

Who acts: Fred, this, we, I · What happens: say, be, turn back · To what, where: luck, good bit · 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, this, we, I), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 luck	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 luck	punct
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 luck	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 luck	cop
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 luck	nmod:poss
11	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turn	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 turn	mark
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 turn	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 turn	nsubj
16	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 turn	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 bit	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bit	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 bit	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bit	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bit	amod
23	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turn	obl:unmarked
24	forward	forward	ADV	_	23 bit	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Fred			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	this	my luck		tree rules
3	turn back	present	we			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	shall	I	a good bit	forward 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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