Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 80

A little while after Catherine said again, "Oh!

Who acts: little while · What happens: say · 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 (little while), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 while	amod
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 Catherine	case
5	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 while	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Oh	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Oh	punct
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 said	parataxis
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a little while after Catherine				again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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