Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Red Cap, sentence 44
I have been looking for you," exclaimed he; and taking up his gun, he shot the old Wolf through the head.
Who acts: I, huntsman · What happens: look, exclaim, take up, shoot · To what, where: huntsman, gun, old Wolf, head · 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 (I, huntsman), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 shot | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 taking | cc |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 shot | csubj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 taking | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gun | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taking | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 shot | nsubj |
| 19 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Wolf | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Wolf | amod |
| 22 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 shot | obj |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 head | det |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shot | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · perfect · progressive | I | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | a huntsman = huntsman not said here | huntsman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take up in a quote | gerund | huntsman's gun | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shoot in a quote | past | huntsman | the old Wolf | the head | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme through head=Destination |
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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