Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 155
Hardly, however, had he set his foot inside than Thumbling again cried, "Bring me no more fodder, bring me no more fodder."
Who acts: pastor · What happens: have, set, thumbl, cry, bring · To what, where: foot, more fodder, pastor · 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 (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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hardly | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obj |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 Thumbling | mark |
| 12 | Thumbling | thumbl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 cried | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 Thumbling | advmod |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bring | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bring | punct |
| 17 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 Bring | obj |
| 19 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 fodder | amod |
| 21 | fodder | fodder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bring | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Bring | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | obj |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 fodder | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 fodder | amod |
| 27 | fodder | fodder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | hardly, however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set | past | pastor | pastor's foot | inside property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result | |||
| 3 | thumbl | gerund | again | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | pastor not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | infinitive | more fodder | pastor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fodder=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | infinitive | more fodder | pastor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fodder=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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