Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 32

The Sister opened it, saying, "Return at evening, mind, and say the words as before."

Who acts: Sister · What happens: open, say · To what, where: door, Return, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sister	det
2	Sister	Sister	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 opened	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Return	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Return	punct
9	Return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saying	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 evening	case
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Return	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mind	punct
13	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Return	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 say	cc
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saying	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 words	det
18	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 before	case
20	before	before	ADV	_	16 say	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	open	past	the Sister	door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Sister not said here	Return and mind	at evening	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the words		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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