Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 40

His wife, however, would listen to nothing that he said, and scolded and reproached him without end.

Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: listen, say, scold, reproach · To what, where: husband · 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 (wife, husband), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 listen	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wife	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 listen	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	aux
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 listen	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scolded	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 scolded	cc
15	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 reproached	cc
17	reproached	reproach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 scolded	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reproached	obj
19	without	without	ADP	_	20 end	case
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reproached	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	would	husband's wife			to nothing; however property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	husband				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	scold	past					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	reproach	past		husband	without end		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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