Grimm's Fairy Stories, Catherine and Frederick, sentence 66
"Oh! my goodness," exclaimed the husband, "what a clever wife I have!
Who acts: goodness · What happens: exclaim, have · To what, where: husband, clever wife · 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 (goodness), 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 | _ | 5 goodness | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 goodness | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 goodness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 goodness | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 goodness | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 husband | det |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 15 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wife | amod |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wife | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | my goodness | the husband | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | my goodness = goodness | a clever wife not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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: «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.
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