Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 82

At last it popped into Catherine’s head that it was the door itself that was so heavy all the time: so she whispered, ‘Frederick, I must throw the door down soon.’

Who acts: dew, Catherine, Frederick · What happens: pop, be, whisper, throw down · To what, where: head, 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 (dew, Catherine, Frederick), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 heavy	amod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 popped	nsubj
4	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 head	case
6	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Catherine	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 popped	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 door	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 door	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 door	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 popped	obl
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	13 door	nmod:unmarked
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 itself	obj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heavy	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 heavy	advmod
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 time	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heavy	obl:unmarked
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 whispered	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 whispered	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 whispered	nsubj
25	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 heavy	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Frederick	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Frederick	punct
28	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 throw	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Frederick	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 throw	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 throw	aux
32	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 whispered	ccomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 door	det
34	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 throw	obj
35	down	down	ADV	_	32 throw	advmod
36	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 throw	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 heavy	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pop	past	dew			into Catherine's head result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into head=Result
2	is a	past	dew	the door		dew nmod:unmarked	tree rules
3	is	past			time	heavy property	tree rules
4	whisper speech: assert	past	Catherine				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	throw down	must	Frederick	the door		down, soon property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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