Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 90
Why are you knocking me about?"
Who acts: you · What happens: knock · To what, where: me
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 (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 knocking | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 knocking | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 knocking | nsubj |
| 4 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 knocking | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 knocking | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 knocking | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 knocking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | present · progressive | you | me | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent i=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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