Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 14
What a fellow you are!" said he to himself, astonished at his own bravery. "
Who acts: fellow · What happens: say, astonish · To what, where: fellow, own bravery · 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 (fellow), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fellow | det |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 are | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 astonished | punct |
| 13 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 bravery | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bravery | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bravery | amod |
| 17 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 astonished | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | what fellow | fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | astonish in a quote | participle | what fellow not said here | fellow's own bravery | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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: «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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