Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 45
‘It does not matter,’ thought she: ‘when we turn back, I shall be so much nearer home than he.’
Who acts: It, we, I · What happens: not matter, think, turn back, be · To what, where: wife
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 (It, we, 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 | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 matter | advmod |
| 5 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | advcl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 turn | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 turn | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 turn | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 turn | nsubj |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 turn | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nearer | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 nearer | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 nearer | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 nearer | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 nearer | advmod |
| 22 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 turn | advcl |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 nearer | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 he | case |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 nearer | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | It | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | wife | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn back | present | we | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | shall | I | than husband; home, near property | tree rules |
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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