Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 110

After a short time, when they had warmed themselves, they said: ‘Comrade, shall we have a game of cards?’

Who acts: cats, we · What happens: warm, say, have · To what, where: cats, Comrade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cats, we), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 warmed	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 warmed	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 warmed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 warmed	aux
9	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 time	acl:relcl
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 warmed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Comrade	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Comrade	punct
16	Comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 game	det
22	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 cards	case
24	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 game	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	warm	past · perfect	cats = cat	cats = cat		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	cats = cat		time	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	shall	we	Comrade		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient

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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