Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 78

A little while after, Catherine thought the door was still very heavy: so she whispered to Frederick, ‘I must throw the vinegar down.’

Who acts: little while, door, Catherine, I · What happens: think, be, whisper, throw down · To what, where: Frederick, vinegar · 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 (little while, door, Catherine, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 while	amod
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
4	after	after	ADV	_	3 while	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 while	punct
6	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heavy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 heavy	cop
11	still	still	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 heavy	advmod
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	ccomp
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 whispered	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 whispered	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 whispered	nsubj
17	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Frederick	case
19	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 whispered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 throw	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 throw	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 throw	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 throw	aux
24	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 whispered	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 vinegar	det
26	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 throw	obj
27	down	down	ADV	_	24 throw	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 throw	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	a little while					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the door			still	heavy property	tree rules
3	whisper speech: assert	past	Catherine		Frederick			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to frederick=Recipient clause=Topic
4	throw down	must	I	the vinegar			down property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vinegar=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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