Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 73
Don't you see that a wretch of a fish is pulling me in?"
Who acts: you, wretch · What happens: not do, see, pull in · To what, where: me
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 (you, wretch), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 pulling | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wretch | det |
| 7 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulling | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fish | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fish | det |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wretch | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pulling | aux |
| 12 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 see | advcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pulling | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pulling | compound:prt |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pull in | present · progressive | a wretch of a fish | me | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result |
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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