Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 154
You are mad," replied the pastor; but he went himself to the byre to see what was there.
Who acts: You, pastor · What happens: be, reply, go, see · To what, where: pastor, byre · 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, pastor), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 mad | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mad | cop |
| 3 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mad | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pastor | det |
| 8 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mad | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 byre | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 byre | det |
| 16 | byre | byre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 there | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 there | cop |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 see | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the pastor | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pastor=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | pastor | pastor | the byre | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to byre=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | pastor not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | there property | 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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