Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 113
Ah! you wicked child," cried the enchantress, "what do I hear you say!
Who acts: you, wicked child, I · What happens: child, cry, hear, say · To what, where: enchantress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wicked child, 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 child | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 child | nsubj |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 enchantress | det |
| 10 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 hear | obj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hear | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hear | nsubj |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hear | ccomp |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | child | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | wicked child | the enchantress | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enchantress=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hear | present · do-support | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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