Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 63

When she reached home, she bolted the back door, but the front door she took off the hinges, and said, ‘Frederick told me to lock the door, but surely it can nowhere be so safe if I take it with me.’

Who acts: Frederick, front door, door, I · What happens: reach, bolt, take off, say, tell, lock · To what, where: back door, hinges, me, 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 (Frederick, front door, door, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bolted	advcl
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bolted	nsubj
7	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 door	compound
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bolted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 door	amod
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bolted	parataxis
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hinges	det
20	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
26	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 told	iobj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 lock	mark
30	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 told	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lock	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 safe	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 safe	cc
35	surely	surely	ADV	_	41 safe	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 safe	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 safe	aux
38	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 safe	advmod
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 safe	cop
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 safe	advmod
41	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 told	conj
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 take	mark
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 take	nsubj
44	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 safe	advcl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 take	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 me	case
47	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 take	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bolted	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 bolted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Frederick			home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bolt	past	Frederick	the back door			vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient
3	take off	past	the front door	the hinges			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hinge=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the front door not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	past	Frederick		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	lock not said to happen	to-infinitive	Frederick not said here	the door			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
7	is	can	door			nowhere, safe, surely property	tree rules
8	take a condition, not said to happen	present	I	door		with me	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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