Grimms' Fairy Tales, Doctor Knowall, sentence 16

‘Yes, but my wife, Grete, too,’ said he, and he seated himself with her at the table.

Who acts: wife, Grete · What happens: say, seat · To what, where: Grete, table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Doctor Knowall. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Grete), 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	_	13 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	13 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Grete	punct
8	Grete	Grete	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wife	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	6 wife	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seated	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seated	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seated	nsubj
18	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 seated	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seated	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 table	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 table	det
24	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seated	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my wife						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	seat	past	Grete	Grete		the table		with wife	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value

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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