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Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 52

But she said she supposed that they knew the road, and would follow her, and she could not stay there all day waiting for them.

Who acts: other, wheels · What happens: say, suppose, know, follow, not stay, wait · To what, where: road, other · 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 (other, wheels), 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

ccnsubjnsubjccompmarknsubjccompdetobjpunctccauxparataxisobjpunctccnsubjauxadvmodconjadvmoddetobl:unmarkedxcompcaseoblpunctrootButCCONJshePRONsaidVERBshePRONsupposedVERBthatSCONJtheyPRONknewVERBtheDETroadNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwouldAUXfollowVERBherPRON,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONcouldAUXnotPARTstayVERBthereADVallDETdayNOUNwaitingVERBforADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_3 saidcc
2sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 saidnsubj
3saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 supposednsubj
5supposedsupposeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 saidccomp
6thatthatSCONJ_8 knewmark
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs8 knewnsubj
8knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 supposedccomp
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 roaddet
10roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing8 knewobj
11,,PUNCT_14 followpunct
12andandCCONJ_14 followcc
13wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin14 followaux
14followfollowVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin3 saidparataxis
15hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 followobj
16,,PUNCT_21 staypunct
17andandCCONJ_21 staycc
18sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 staynsubj
19couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin21 stayaux
20notnotPARTPolarity=Neg21 stayadvmod
21staystayVERBVerbForm=Inf14 followconj
22therethereADVPronType=Dem21 stayadvmod
23allallDETPronType=Tot24 daydet
24daydayNOUNNumber=Sing21 stayobl:unmarked
25waitingwaitVERBVerbForm=Ger21 stayxcomp
26forforADP_27 themcase
27themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 waitingobl
28..PUNCT_3 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastothervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2supposepastothervn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3knowpastwheels = wheelthe roadvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus
4followwouldothervn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5not staycouldothertheredaytree rules
6waitgerundother not said herefor wheels = wheelvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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