Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 51
So saying, Catherine walked on and came up with Fred, who was waiting for her, because he needed something to eat. "
Who acts: Catherine, Fred, I. · What happens: say, walk on, come up, wait, need, eat · To what, where: something · 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, Fred, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 walked | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 came | cc |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Fred | case |
| 11 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waiting | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 waiting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 waiting | aux |
| 15 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Fred | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 waiting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 needed | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 needed | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 needed | nsubj |
| 21 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 needed | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 something | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Catherine not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | walk on | past | Catherine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come up | past | Catherine not said here | with Fred | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | past · progressive | Fred | for Catherine | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | need | past | I. | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme | ||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | I. not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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