Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 32

"All the better to hear you with," was the reply.

What happens: hear, be · To what, where: you · 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: 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	_	4 better	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 better	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 better	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	csubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	13 reply	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 with	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 reply	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reply	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reply	det
13	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	to-infinitive		you					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	be speech: assert	past						with the reply	tree rules

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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