Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 40

‘Wife, wife,’ said Frederick, ‘what a pretty piece of work you have made! those yellow buttons were all my money: how came you to do such a thing?’

Who acts: Wife, you, yellow buttons · What happens: say, piece, make, be, come, do · To what, where: work, money, you, thing · 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 (Wife, you, yellow buttons), 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	_	2 Wife	punct
2	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Wife	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Wife	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 piece	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 piece	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 piece	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 piece	det
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 piece	amod
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 work	case
16	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	nmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 work	acl:relcl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 piece	punct
21	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 buttons	det
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 buttons	amod
23	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 money	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 money	cop
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 money	det:predet
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 money	nmod:poss
27	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 came	advmod
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 came	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 came	advcl
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 thing	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 thing	det
36	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wife and wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	piece				of work	tree rules
3	make	present · perfect	you	work not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Product
4	is a	past	that yellow buttons	my money		tree rules
5	come	past		you		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
6	do	to-infinitive		such thing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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