Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 15

"Mercy on us!" said the maiden, "in winter there are no strawberries growing; the ground is frozen, and the snow, too, has covered everything.

Who acts: Mercy, strawberries · What happens: say, be, grow, freeze, cover · To what, where: ground, everything · 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 (Mercy, strawberries), 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	_	2 Mercy	punct
2	Mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Mercy	nmod
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Mercy	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mercy	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 maiden	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 maiden	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 winter	case
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 are	obl
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 are	expl
15	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 strawberries	det
17	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 are	nsubj
18	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 strawberries	acl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 frozen	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 frozen	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 frozen	aux:pass
23	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 snow	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 snow	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 snow	det
27	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 frozen	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 snow	punct
29	too	too	ADV	_	23 frozen	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 covered	punct
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 covered	aux
32	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 frozen	conj
33	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	32 covered	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mercy on us					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	does in a quote	present	no strawberries		there	winter		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow in a quote	gerund	no strawberries not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	freeze in a quote	present · passive		the ground			the snow obl	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
5	cover in a quote	present · perfect		everything				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Destination

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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