Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 151

Then, at length in his anguish, he cried as loud as he could, "Bring me no more fodder, bring me no more fodder."

Who acts: rascal · What happens: cry, bring, anguish · To what, where: length, more fodder, rascal · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 cried	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 length	case
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 anguish	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 anguish	nmod:poss
7	anguish	anguish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 length	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 length	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 loud	advmod
12	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	xcomp
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 could	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 could	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 loud	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Bring	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Bring	punct
18	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 Bring	obj
20	no	no	ADV	_	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 fodder	amod
22	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Bring	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bring	punct
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Bring	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obj
26	no	no	ADV	_	28 fodder	advmod
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 fodder	amod
28	fodder	fodder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bring	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	rascal			length in rascal's anguish	then	loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	bring in a quote	infinitive	rascal not said here	more fodder	rascal				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fodder=Theme
3	bring in a quote	infinitive	rascal not said here	more fodder	rascal				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fodder=Theme
4	anguish		rascal						nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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