Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 80

Not content with making it shorter before, you are now making it still smaller, and completely spoiling it.

Who acts: you · What happens: not content, make, spoil · To what, where: use

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), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 content	advmod
2	content	content	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	SCONJ	_	4 making	mark
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 content	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 making	obj
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 making	xcomp
7	before	before	ADV	_	6 shorter	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 making	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 making	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 making	aux
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 making	advmod
12	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 content	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 making	obj
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 smaller	advmod
15	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 making	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spoiling	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spoiling	cc
18	completely	completely	ADV	_	19 spoiling	advmod
19	spoiling	spoil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 content	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spoiling	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not content	imperative	you not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	gerund	you not said here	use		short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	make	present · progressive	you	use	now	small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	spoil	gerund	you not said here	use		completely property	tree rules

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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