Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 76
No, Catherine," said he, "not now, they might discover us." "
Who acts: Catherine, wind · What happens: say, discover · To what, where: us · 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, wind), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Catherine | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Catherine | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 discover | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 he | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 now | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 now | advmod |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 discover | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 discover | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 discover | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 discover | aux |
| 15 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 discover | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 discover | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 discover | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Catherine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | discover | might | wind | us | now | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Topic |
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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