Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 24

Lift up the latch," cried the grandmother; "I am much too ill to get up myself."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: lift up, cry, be, get up · To what, where: latch, grandmother, myself · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Red Cap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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	Lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Lift	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 latch	det
4	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lift	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Lift	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grandmother	det
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ill	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 ill	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 ill	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ill	cop
14	much	much	ADV	_	16 ill	advmod
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 ill	advmod
16	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cried	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ill	advcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 get	compound:prt
20	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	18 get	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lift	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Lift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift up	imperative	you not said here	the latch		tree rules
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past		the grandmother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Topic
3	is	present	I		ill property	tree rules
4	get up	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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