Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 83
Dear good God, help us now!" she exclaimed. "
Who acts: Dear good God, witch · What happens: help, exclaim · To what, where: us · 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 (Dear good God, witch), 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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 God | amod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 God | amod |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 help | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 help | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Dear good God | us | now | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | witch | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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