Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 57
"If you had but told me so," said Catherine, vexedly.
Who acts: you, Catherine · What happens: have, tell, say · To what, where: Catherine · 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 (you, Catherine), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | ccomp |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 told | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vexedly | punct |
| 14 | vexedly | vexedly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | Catherine not said here | Catherine | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Catherine | vexedly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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