Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 28

‘Why, Frederick,’ said she, ‘I did not know I was doing wrong; you should have told me before.’

Who acts: Frederick, I · What happens: say, not know, do, tell · To what, where: you, me · 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 (Frederick, 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Frederick	punct
4	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Frederick	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Frederick	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	_	14 know	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 doing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 doing	aux
17	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 know	ccomp
18	wrong	wrong	ADV	_	17 doing	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj:pass
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 told	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	aux
23	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	before	before	ADV	_	23 told	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Frederick				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not know	past · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	do	past · progressive	I			wrong property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	should · perfect · passive		you	me	before property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=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: «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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