Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 176
Ah," said the father, "what sorrow we have gone through for your sake." "
Who acts: sorrow · What happens: say, go · To what, where: father, sake · 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 (sorrow), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 gone | obj |
| 10 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 sake | case |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sake | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sake | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | present · perfect | sorrow | your sake | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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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