Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 86

Not many minutes after Catherine found the door was still quite as heavy, and said again to Fred, "Now I must throw down this door."

Who acts: door, I · What happens: find, be, say, throw down · To what, where: Fred, door · 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 (door, I), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 minutes	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minutes	amod
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	obl:unmarked
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 Catherine	case
5	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 minutes	nmod
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heavy	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heavy	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	parataxis
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Fred	case
19	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 throw	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 throw	punct
22	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 throw	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 throw	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 throw	aux
25	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 throw	compound:prt
27	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 throw	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past				minute		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the door			still	heavy property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past			Fred	again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fred=Recipient
4	throw down in a quote	must	I	this door		now		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme

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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