Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 121

I could tell you that," cried Thumbling, interrupting them. "

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, cry, thumbl, interrupt · To what, where: you, gold · 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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 you	nmod:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	conj
9	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 cried	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 interrupting	punct
11	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 Thumbling	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 interrupting	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	I not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	thumbl in a quote	gerund	I not said here			tree rules
4	interrupt in a quote	gerund	I not said here	gold		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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