Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 55
Oh, Fred, dear," she replied, "with the butter I have smeared the ruts, and the cheeses will soon come, but one ran away, and I sent the others after it to call it back!"
Who acts: Fred, I, cheeses, one · What happens: reply, smear, come, run away, send, call back · To what, where: ruts, others, cheese · 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, I, cheeses, one), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 dear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dear | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dear | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smeared | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 smeared | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 butter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 butter | det |
| 14 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smeared | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 smeared | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 smeared | aux |
| 17 | smeared | smear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ruts | det |
| 19 | ruts | rut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smeared | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 come | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cheeses | det |
| 23 | cheeses | cheese | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 come | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 come | advmod |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 smeared | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ran | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 ran | cc |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 ran | nsubj |
| 30 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dear | parataxis |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 ran | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sent | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sent | cc |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 sent | nsubj |
| 35 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dear | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 others | det |
| 37 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 sent | obj |
| 38 | after | after | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sent | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 call | mark |
| 41 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 sent | advcl |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 call | obj |
| 43 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 call | advmod |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | Fred | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | smear | present · perfect | I | the ruts | with the butter | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent rut=Destination with butter=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | future | the cheeses | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run away | past | one | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | send | past | I | the others | after cheese | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | |||
| 6 | call back speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | cheese | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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