Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 96

When Thumbling saw his father, he cried to him, "See, father, here I am with the cart; now take me down."

Who acts: wood · What happens: thumbl, see, cry, be, take down · To what, where: father, wood · 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 (wood), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	Thumbling	thumbl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 See	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 See	punct
13	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 See	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 See	advmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 cart	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cart	cop
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 cart	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cart	det
22	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 See	parataxis
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 take	advmod
25	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	down	down	ADP	_	25 take	compound:prt
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thumbl	gerund							tree rules
2	see	past		wood's father					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
3	cry speech: express	past	wood		Father				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	infinitive	wood not said here	father		here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	present	wood					with the cart	tree rules
6	take down in a quote	infinitive		wood			now		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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