Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 168
Eh, what," replied the little fellow, "you have eaten your fill, and I will make merry likewise," and began once more to scream with all his strength.
Who acts: Eh, you, I · What happens: reply, eat, make, begin, scream · To what, where: little fellow, fill, more · 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 (Eh, you, I), 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 | Eh | Eh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Eh | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eh | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fellow | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fellow | amod |
| 9 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eaten | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 eaten | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 eaten | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 eaten | aux |
| 14 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fill | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eaten | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 make | xcomp |
| 23 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 22 merry | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 began | cc |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 29 more | advmod |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 began | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 scream | mark |
| 31 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 began | xcomp |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 strength | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 strength | det:predet |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 strength | nmod:poss |
| 35 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 scream | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | Eh | the little fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | present · perfect | you | your fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | future | I | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | begin in a quote | past | Eh not said here | more | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | scream speech: express in a quote | to-infinitive | Eh not said here | with Eh's strength | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with strength=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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