Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 38
Then she set them all about the house for a show: and when Frederick came back, he cried out, ‘Kate, what have you been doing?’
Who acts: Frederick, man, Kate · What happens: set, come back, cry out, do · To what, where: buttons
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, man, Kate), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | obj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 house | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 show | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 show | det |
| 11 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cried | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 came | advmod |
| 15 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cried | advcl |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 cried | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 doing | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 doing | punct |
| 24 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 doing | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 doing | punct |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 30 doing | obj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 doing | aux |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 doing | nsubj |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 doing | aux |
| 30 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 cried | parataxis |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 doing | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Frederick | buttons = button | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme house=Destination | |||
| 2 | come back | past | Frederick | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | present · perfect · progressive | Kate | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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