Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 8
"You stupid dandyprat," replied the Prince proudly, "why should I tell you that?" and he rode off.
Who acts: You, stupid dandyprat, dandyprat · What happens: dandyprat, reply, tell, ride off · To what, where: Prince, you · 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, stupid dandyprat, dandyprat), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dandyprat | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 dandyprat | nsubj |
| 3 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dandyprat | amod |
| 4 | dandyprat | dandyprat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dandyprat | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dandyprat | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 13 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 tell | advmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rode | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rode | nsubj |
| 23 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 rode | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dandyprat in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | stupid dandyprat | the Prince | proudly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | should | stupid dandyprat = dandyprat | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | ride off | past | dandyprat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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