Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 73

Catherine, who had the door on her shoulder, began to be very tired; but she thought it was the nuts upon it that were so heavy: so she said softly, ‘Frederick, I must let the nuts go.’

Who acts: Catherine, door, nuts, I · What happens: have, begin, be, think, say, let · To what, where: door, shoulder, nuts, Frederick · 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, door, nuts, 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	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 shoulder	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shoulder	nmod:poss
9	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	15 tired	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 tired	cop
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 tired	advmod
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 began	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 thought	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 nuts	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 nuts	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nuts	det
23	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thought	ccomp
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 nuts	nmod
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 heavy	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 heavy	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 heavy	advmod
29	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nuts	acl:relcl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 said	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
34	softly	softly	ADV	_	33 said	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Frederick	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 Frederick	punct
37	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 let	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 let	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 let	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 let	aux
41	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 said	ccomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 nuts	det
43	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 go	nsubj
44	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 let	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 let	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Catherine	the door	Catherine's shoulder		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	begin	past	Catherine not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	to-infinitive	Catherine not said here			tired property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past	Catherine				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	door	the nuts		upon shoulder	tree rules
6	is	past	the nuts			heavy property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	Catherine			softly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	let	must	I	Frederick			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
9	go	present	the nuts				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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