Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 44
‘Very well,’ said she; and they set out: and as Frederick walked the fastest, he left his wife some way behind.
Who acts: harm, butter, Frederick, husband · What happens: say, set out, walk, leave · To what, where: fastest, wife · 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 (harm, butter, Frederick, husband), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 walked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 walked | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 walked | mark |
| 16 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 walked | nsubj |
| 17 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fastest | det |
| 19 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 walked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | nsubj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 walked | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obj |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 22 left | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | harm | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | butter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk | past | Frederick | the fastest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | husband | husband's wife | some way obl:unmarked; behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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