Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 92
See my little coat; you have rent and damaged it in a fine manner, you clumsy, officious things!"
Who acts: you · What happens: see, have, damage, thing · To what, where: little coat, rent, fine manner
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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 coat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coat | amod |
| 4 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 8 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 damaged | cc |
| 10 | damaged | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 damaged | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 manner | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 manner | det |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 manner | amod |
| 15 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 damaged | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 things | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 things | nsubj |
| 18 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clumsy | punct |
| 20 | officious | officious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 See | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | my little coat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | rent | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | damage | past | you not said here | rent | a fine manner | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | thing | you | 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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