Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 173
Then Thumbling heard his parents' voices, and cried, "Dear father, I am here; I am in the wolf's body."
Who acts: I · What happens: thumbl, hear, cry, be · To what, where: voices, Dear father, body · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Thumbling | thumbl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 voices | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 parents | case |
| 7 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 13 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 father | amod |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 here | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 here | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 here | cop |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cried | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 body | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 body | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 body | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 body | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wolf | det |
| 24 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 body | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 wolf | case |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 body | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 body | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thumbl | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past | man's parents's voices | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Dear father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | I | the wolf's body | 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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