Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 83
"Ah! but I must, Fred, it is very heavy," said Catherine.
Who acts: vinegar, Fred · What happens: be, 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 (vinegar, Fred), 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 Fred | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 Fred | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Fred | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 Fred | aux |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fred | punct |
| 8 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heavy | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 heavy | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 heavy | advmod |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Fred | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | vinegar | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Fred | 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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