Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 91

As soon as the little man had in some measure recovered from his alarm, his small squeaky, cracked voice was heard saying, "Couldn't you have held me more gently?

Who acts: little man, small squeaky cracked voice, you, man · What happens: have, recover, crack, hear, say, not hold · To what, where: measure, alarm, small squeaky cracked voice · 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 (little man, small squeaky cracked voice, you, man), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 recovered	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 recovered	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 measure	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 measure	det
10	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
11	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 alarm	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 alarm	nmod:poss
14	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 recovered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 voice	nmod:poss
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 voice	amod
18	squeaky	squeaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 voice	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 squeaky	punct
20	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 voice	amod
21	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	aux:pass
23	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 recovered	conj
24	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 heard	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 held	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 held	punct
27	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 held	aux
28	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 held	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 held	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 held	aux
31	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 saying	ccomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 held	obj
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 gently	advmod
34	gently	gently	ADV	_	31 held	advmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the little man		some measure		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	recover	past			man's alarm	soon property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from alarm=Source
3	crack	participle					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	past · passive		man's small squeaky cracked voice			tree rules
5	say speech: ask	gerund	man's small squeaky cracked voice not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not hold in a quote	could · perfect	you	man's small squeaky cracked voice = voice		gently property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
7	alarm		man				nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=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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