Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 41

‘Why,’ answered she, ‘I did not know there was any harm in it; you should have told me.’

Who acts: I, harm · What happens: answer, not know, be, tell · To what, where: Frederick, 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 (I, harm), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 answered	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	ccomp
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 harm	det
16	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 harm	nmod
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	5 answered	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			Frederick		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2	not know	past · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	past	any harm in work			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	should · perfect · passive		you	me		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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