Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 67
The King exclaimed, "Oh, mercy! what does this mean?--the next night I will watch myself by the child."
Who acts: King, this, next night · What happens: exclaim, mean, watch · To what, where: mercy, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, this, next night), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mercy | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mercy | punct |
| 6 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 mercy | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Oh | punct |
| 8 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 exclaimed | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 mean | obj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mean | aux |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 mean | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 watch | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 night | amod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 watch | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 watch | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 watch | aux |
| 21 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mean | parataxis |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 watch | obj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 child | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 watch | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | the King | mercy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | watch in a quote | future | the next night | the King = king | by the child | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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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