Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 21
‘Ah! well,’ said she, ‘when one goes another may as well follow.’
Who acts: Catherine, one · What happens: say, go, follow · To what, where: another · 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 (Catherine, one), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 goes | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 goes | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 goes | mark |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 goes | nsubj |
| 13 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 goes | obj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 follow | aux |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 18 follow | cc |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 as | fixed |
| 18 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 another | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Catherine | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | present | one | another | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location another=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | may | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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