Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 64
So she took her time by the way; and when she overtook her husband she cried out, ‘There, Frederick, there is the door itself, you may watch it as carefully as you please.’
Who acts: Frederick, door, you · What happens: take, overtake, cry out, be, watch · To what, where: husband, Frederick, door
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, door, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 time | nmod:poss |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cried | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 overtook | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 overtook | nsubj |
| 13 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cried | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overtook | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cried | nsubj |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 cried | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Frederick | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 Frederick | punct |
| 21 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 Frederick | expl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Frederick | punct |
| 23 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 is | expl |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 door | det |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 is | nsubj |
| 29 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 28 door | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 watch | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 watch | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 watch | aux |
| 33 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 watch | obj |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 carefully | advmod |
| 36 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 33 watch | advmod |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 you | case |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 watch | obl |
| 39 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 took | discourse |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Frederick | time | by the way | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | overtake | past | Frederick | Frederick's husband | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | Frederick | Frederick | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be | present | the door door | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | watch | may | you | door | as you; carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme as you=Value |
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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