Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 17
‘My stars!’ said she, ‘what shall I do to keep Frederick from seeing all this slopping about?’
Who acts: stars, I · What happens: say, do, keep, see, slop · To what, where: Frederick, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stars | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stars | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 stars | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 do | xcomp |
| 16 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obj |
| 17 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 18 seeing | mark |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 keep | advcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 this | det:predet |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 seeing | obj |
| 21 | slopping | slop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 seeing | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 slopping | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My stars | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | I not said here | Frederick | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frederick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | I not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | slop | gerund | I not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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