Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 80
‘I can’t help that,’ said she, ‘go it must.’
Who acts: I, Catherine · What happens: not help, say, go · To what, where: that · 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 (I, Catherine), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 must | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | can | I | that | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Catherine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | 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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