Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 84
‘Here goes, however,’ said she: and down went the door with such a clatter upon the thieves, that they cried out ‘Murder!’ and not knowing what was coming, ran away as fast as they could, and left all the gold.
Who acts: Catherine, thieves · What happens: go, say, cry out, not know, come, run away · To what, where: door, Murder, gold · 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, thieves), 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 | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 goes | advmod |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 clatter | case |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 clatter | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 clatter | det |
| 19 | clatter | clatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 thieves | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thieves | det |
| 22 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 went | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cried | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 cried | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cried | nsubj |
| 26 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 cried | compound:prt |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Murder | punct |
| 29 | Murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cried | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 Murder | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Murder | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 knowing | cc |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 knowing | advmod |
| 34 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 cried | advcl |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 coming | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 coming | aux |
| 37 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 knowing | ccomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ran | punct |
| 39 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 39 ran | advmod |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | _ | 42 fast | advmod |
| 42 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 ran | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 could | mark |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 could | nsubj |
| 45 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 fast | advcl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 left | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 left | cc |
| 48 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 49 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 gold | det:predet |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 gold | det |
| 51 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 left | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | here | however property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Catherine | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the door | with such clatter; upon the thieves; down property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | thieves = thief | Murder | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not know | gerund | thieves = thief not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | come | past · progressive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | run away | past | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | leave | past | all gold | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=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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