Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 72
"I'm not such a simpleton as that!" yelled the little man. "
Who acts: simpleton · What happens: not be, yell · To what, where: simpleton, little man · 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 (simpleton), 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 | _ | 7 simpleton | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 simpleton | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 simpleton | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 simpleton | advmod |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 simpleton | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 simpleton | det |
| 7 | simpleton | simpleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yelled | nsubj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 simpleton | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 simpleton | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 simpleton | punct |
| 12 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yelled | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 yelled | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 yelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | such simpleton = simpleton | such simpleton | as that | tree rules | |||
| 2 | yell speech: express | past | such simpleton | the little man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
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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