Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 48
He stared at the children with his red, fiery eyes, and called out, "Why are you standing there?
Who acts: beard, you · What happens: stare, call out, stand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stared | nsubj |
| 2 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stared | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 red | punct |
| 10 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stared | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 called | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 standing | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 standing | punct |
| 18 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 standing | advmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 standing | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 standing | nsubj |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stared | advcl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 standing | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | beard | at the children; with beard's red fiery eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: ask | participle | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stand in a quote | present · progressive | you | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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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