Grimms' Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, sentence 13

Then the servant was greatly frightened, and said, ‘It may perhaps be only a cat or a dog.’

Who acts: servant · What happens: frighten, say, ‘, be · To what, where: servant, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Lily and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 frightened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	aux:pass
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	‘	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cat	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 cat	aux
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 cat	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 cat	cop
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 cat	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ‘	ccomp
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 dog	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dog	det
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cat	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the servant	then	greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	‘	past					tree rules
4	is a	may	servant	a cat or a dog		perhaps property	tree rules

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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