--- title: Catherine promised to mind what he said, but as soon as Fred was gon… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Catherine promised to mind what he said, but as soon as Fred was gone some hawkers came into the village with earthenware for sale, and amongst others they asked her if she would purchase anything. " Who acts: Catherine, husband, Fred, gone. 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" **Who acts:** Catherine, husband, Fred, gone, hawkers · **What happens:** promise, mind, say, be, come, ask · **To what, where:** village, Fred, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Catherine and Frederick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Catherine, husband, Fred, gone), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:12:23 # text = Catherine promised to mind what he said, but as soon as Fred was gone some hawkers came into the village with earthenware for sale, and amongst others they asked her if she would purchase anything. " 1 Catherine Catherine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 Fred Fred PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 nsubj _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 hawkers hawker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 earthenware earthenware NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 purchase purchase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 37 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Catherine | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **mind** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Catherine *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | husband | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **is** | past | Fred | | | | | gone, soon *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | past | gone | | | the village with earthenware for sale | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into village=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | hawkers *= hawker* | | Fred | | | amongst others | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **purchase** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Fred | anything | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/12/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/12/24/) - ↑ back to [Catherine and Frederick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/12/)