Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 79
When the dwarf noticed what they were about, he exclaimed in a great rage, "Is this how you damage my beard?
Who acts: dwarf, dwarfs, portion, you · What happens: notice, be, exclaim, damage · To what, where: great rage, this, beard · 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 (dwarf, dwarfs, portion, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 noticed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dwarf | det |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 exclaimed | advcl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 noticed | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 about | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 about | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 rage | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rage | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rage | amod |
| 15 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rage | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 rage | punct |
| 18 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 this | cop |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 exclaimed | conj |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 damage | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 damage | nsubj |
| 22 | damage | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 this | advcl |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 beard | nmod:poss |
| 24 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 damage | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the dwarf | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | dwarfs = dwarf | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | portion | a great rage | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | portion not said here | this | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | damage in a quote | present | you | my beard | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |
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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