Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 96

"Yes, my dear husband," said she; "I will go into the fields to cut corn."

Who acts: dear husband · What happens: say, go, cut · To what, where: fields, corn · 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 (dear husband), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 husband	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 husband	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 husband	amod
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 husband	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 husband	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 fields	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fields	det
18	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 go	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cut	mark
20	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	advcl
21	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my dear husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	future	my dear husband = husband		the fields	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
3	cut in a quote	to-infinitive	my dear husband = husband not said here	corn		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product

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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