Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 126

"A witch has told you! a witch has told you!" shrieked the little Man, and stamped his right foot so hard in the ground with rage that he could not draw it out again.

Who acts: man · What happens: tell, shriek, stamp, not draw out · To what, where: witch, you, little Man, right foot, ground, rage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 witch	det
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 shrieked	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 witch	det
9	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj:pass
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 shrieked	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
15	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Man	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Man	amod
18	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shrieked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stamped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stamped	cc
21	stamped	stamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shrieked	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 foot	nmod:poss
23	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 foot	amod
24	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stamped	obj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 hard	advmod
26	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 stamped	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 ground	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ground	det
29	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stamped	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 rage	case
31	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ground	nmod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 draw	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 draw	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 draw	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 draw	advmod
36	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 stamped	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 draw	obj
38	out	out	ADP	_	36 draw	compound:prt
39	again	again	ADV	_	36 draw	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		a witch	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		a witch	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
3	shriek	past		the little Man					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
4	stamp	past		man's right foot		the ground with rage		hard property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in ground=Destination
5	not draw out	could	man	rage			again		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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