Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 50
Catherine looked, but could not see where it had gone; so she said, ‘Well, I suppose the other will go the same way and find you; he has younger legs than I have.’
Who acts: Catherine, office, I, other, road · What happens: look, not see, go, say, suppose, find · To what, where: same way, you, younger legs · 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 (Catherine, office, I, other), 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 | Catherine | Catherine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 looked | conj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 gone | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | aux |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 said | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suppose | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 suppose | punct |
| 18 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 21 suppose | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Well | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 suppose | nsubj |
| 21 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 other | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 suppose | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 way | amod |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 find | cc |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 find | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 has | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 has | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 35 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 legs | amod |
| 36 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 has | obj |
| 37 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 39 have | mark |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 has | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 has | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Catherine | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not see | could | Catherine not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | office | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Catherine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | future | the other | the same way | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find | infinitive | the other not said here | you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | ||||
| 8 | have | present | road | younger legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 9 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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