Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 59
They ate the dry bread together; and Frederick said, ‘Kate, I hope you locked the door safe when you came away.’
Who acts: wheels, Frederick, I, you · What happens: eat, say, hope, lock, come away · To what, where: dry bread, Kate, door · 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 (wheels, Frederick, I, you), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bread | det |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bread | amod |
| 5 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 ate | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Kate | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Kate | punct |
| 13 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hope | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hope | nsubj |
| 16 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 locked | nsubj |
| 18 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hope | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 locked | obj |
| 21 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 locked | xcomp |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 came | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 locked | advcl |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | wheels = wheel | the dry bread | together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Frederick | Kate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lock | past | you | the door | safe property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 5 | come away | past | you | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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