Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 112
Good-evening, gentlemen, just go home without me," he cried to them, and mocked them.
Who acts: you, fellow · What happens: go, cry, mock · To what, where: gentlemen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Good | punct |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gentlemen | punct |
| 5 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 evening | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | nsubj |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mocked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mocked | cc |
| 20 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 mocked | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | evening | without me; home property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | fellow | gentlemen = gentleman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | mock in a quote | past | fellow not said here | gentlemen = gentleman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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