Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 11

Holloa! who asked you?" exclaimed the Tailor, driving away the uninvited visitors; but the flies, not understanding his words, would not be driven off, and came back in greater numbers than before.

Who acts: Holloa, flies · What happens: ask, exclaim, drive away, not understand, not drive off, come back · To what, where: you, Tailor, uninvited visitors, words, flies, greater numbers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holloa, flies), 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	Holloa	holloa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Holloa	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tailor	det
10	Tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exclaimed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 driving	punct
12	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 exclaimed	advcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 driving	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 visitors	det
15	uninvited	uninvited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 visitors	amod
16	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 driving	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 flies	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 flies	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flies	det
20	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 driven	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 understanding	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 understanding	advmod
23	understanding	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 flies	acl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 words	nmod:poss
25	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 understanding	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 driven	punct
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 driven	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 driven	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 driven	aux:pass
30	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 asked	ccomp
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 driven	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 came	cc
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
35	back	back	ADV	_	34 came	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 numbers	case
37	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 numbers	amod
38	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 came	obl
39	than	than	ADP	_	40 before	case
40	before	before	ADV	_	38 numbers	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Holloa		you			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	Holloa not said here	the Tailor				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tailor=Topic
3	drive away in a quote	gerund	Holloa not said here	the uninvited visitors			away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme
4	not understand in a quote	gerund	the flies not said here	Holloa's words				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
5	not drive off in a quote	would · passive		the flies				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	come back in a quote	past	Holloa not said here			greater numbers		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location
7	word in a quote		Holloa					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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