Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 46

Still all three stayed, and she said, "I cannot think what this means; perhaps it is that the third cheese has missed his way: I will send a fourth, that he may call him as he goes by."

Who acts: three, Catherine, this, rogue · What happens: stay, say, not think, mean, be, send · To what, where: cheese, fourth, dog · 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 (three, Catherine, this, rogue), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 three	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 think	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 think	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 think	advmod
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 means	obj
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 means	nsubj
17	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 think	ccomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 missed	punct
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	27 missed	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 missed	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 missed	cop
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 missed	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cheese	det
24	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 cheese	amod
25	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 missed	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 missed	aux
27	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stayed	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 way	nmod:poss
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 missed	obj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 send	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 send	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 send	aux
33	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stayed	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 fourth	det
35	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 send	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 call	punct
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 call	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 call	nsubj
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 call	aux
40	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 send	parataxis
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 call	obj
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 goes	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 goes	nsubj
44	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 call	advcl
45	by	by	ADP	_	44 goes	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 send	punct
47	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	all three			still		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Catherine					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not think speech: other in a quote	can	Catherine					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mean in a quote	present	this					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	is in a quote	present · perfect · passive		cheese			miss, perhaps property	tree rules
6	send in a quote	future	Catherine	a fourth				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourth=Theme
7	call in a quote	may	rogue		dog			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	go by in a quote	present	rogue					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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