Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 147
Ah, heavens!" cried he, "how have I got into the fulling mill?" but he soon discovered where he was.
Who acts: heavens, I, rascal · What happens: cry, get, full, discover, be · To what, where: fulling mill · 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 (heavens, I, rascal), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 heavens | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 heavens | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heavens | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 got | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 mill | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mill | det |
| 16 | fulling | full | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 mill | amod |
| 17 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 discovered | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 discovered | nsubj |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 discovered | advmod |
| 23 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | conj |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 was | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 was | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 discovered | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | heavens | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | I | the fulling mill | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into mill=Destination | ||||
| 3 | full | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | discover in a quote | past | rascal | soon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | past | rascal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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