Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 48

Simpleton!" said the wife, "that is no dove, but only the sun shining on the chimney."

Who acts: Simpleton, that, sun · What happens: say, be, shine · To what, where: wife, dove, 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 (Simpleton, that, 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	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Simpleton	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Simpleton	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dove	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dove	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 dove	det
12	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sun	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 sun	cc
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 sun	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
18	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 sun	acl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 chimney	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chimney	det
21	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shining	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sun	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 sun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Simpleton	the wife and no dove		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
2	is a	present	that	no dove		tree rules
3	shine	gerund	the sun not said here		the 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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