Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 132
Thumbling, however, behaved as if he had not understood this, and cried again, "What do you want?
Who acts: deal, you · What happens: thumbl, behave, not understand, cry, want · To what, where: this · 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 (deal, you), 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 | Thumbling | thumbl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 behaved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thumbling | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 behaved | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 understood | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 understood | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 understood | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 understood | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 understood | advmod |
| 11 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 behaved | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 understood | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 behaved | parataxis |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 cried | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 want | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 want | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 want | obj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 want | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 want | nsubj |
| 22 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 behaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thumbl | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | behave | participle · passive | however property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not understand | past · perfect | deal | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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