Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 22

"Ah, father," said Hansel, "I am looking at my white cat sitting upon the roof of the house, and trying to say good-bye." "

Who acts: father · What happens: say, look, sit, try · To what, where: roof, good bye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	_	4 father	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 looking	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 looking	aux
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 cat	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cat	nmod:poss
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cat	amod
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
18	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 looking	conj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 roof	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roof	det
21	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 roof	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 trying	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 trying	cc
27	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 looking	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 trying	xcomp
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bye	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 good	punct
32	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 say	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 trying	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 trying	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look in a quote	present · progressive	father			at my white cat	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cat=Theme
3	sit in a quote	gerund	father not said here		the roof of the house		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon roof=Location
4	try in a quote	gerund	father not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	father not said here	good bye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bye=Topic

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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