Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 48

For a long time after this she waited, expecting they would come, but when she found they did not she cried out, "You are nice fellows to send after a dead man! you stop a fine time! but do you think I shall wait for you?

Who acts: Catherine, fifth, You · What happens: wait, expect, come, find, do, not cry out · To what, where: nice fellows · 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, fifth, You), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waited	obl
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	nmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 waited	nsubj
8	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 expecting	punct
10	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 waited	advcl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 expecting	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 found	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cried	advcl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 did	nsubj
20	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	ccomp
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 cried	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cried	nsubj
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 waited	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 cried	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fellows	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 fellows	punct
27	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 fellows	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fellows	cop
29	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fellows	amod
30	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cried	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 send	mark
32	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fellows	acl
33	after	after	ADP	_	36 man	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 send	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 stop	punct
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 stop	nsubj
39	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 waited	parataxis
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 time	det
41	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 time	amod
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stop	obj
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 stop	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 think	cc
45	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 think	aux
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 think	nsubj
47	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 stop	conj
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 wait	nsubj
49	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 wait	aux
50	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 think	ccomp
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 you	case
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 wait	obl
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Catherine		time		tree rules
2	expect	gerund	Catherine not said here				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	would	fifth				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	Catherine				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	do	past	fifth				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not cry out speech: express	past	Catherine				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present	You	nice fellows			tree rules
8	send in a quote	to-infinitive	Catherine not said here		after a dead man		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	stop in a quote	present	you		time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
10	think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
11	wait in a quote	shall	Catherine			for you	vn exist-47.1 «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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