Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 23

You simpleton!" said the wife, "that is not a cat; it is only the sun shining on the white chimney."

Who acts: You, that, cat, sun · What happens: simpleton, say, not be, be, shine · To what, where: wife, cat, sun, white chimney · 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 (You, that, cat, sun), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 simpleton	nsubj
2	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 simpleton	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 simpleton	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wife	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wife	punct
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cat	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cat	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 cat	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sun	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sun	cop
18	only	only	ADV	_	20 sun	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
21	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 sun	acl
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 chimney	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chimney	det
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 chimney	amod
25	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shining	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 sun	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 sun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	simpleton		You			tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the wife and a cat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
3	not is a	present	that	a cat		tree rules
4	is a	present	cat	the sun		tree rules
5	shine	gerund	the sun not said here		the white chimney	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chimney=Location

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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