Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 53
Then he thought something must have happened, and said, ‘I will go into the kitchen and see.’
Who acts: first, something, I · What happens: think, happen, say, go, see · To what, where: kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, something, I), 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 | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 kitchen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kitchen | det |
| 18 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | first | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | must · perfect | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | first not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | future | I | the kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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