Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 85
But the old witch called out, "Leave off that noise; it will not help you a bit."
Who acts: old witch, noise · What happens: call out, leave off, not help · To what, where: old witch, noise, you · 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 (old witch, noise), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 Leave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 witch | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 witch | amod |
| 4 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Leave | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 witch | acl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 called | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Leave | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Leave | punct |
| 9 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 Leave | compound:prt |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 noise | det |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Leave | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 help | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 help | advmod |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Leave | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bit | det |
| 20 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 help | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Leave | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | the old witch not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | leave off in a quote | infinitive | the old witch | that noise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not help in a quote | future | noise | you | a bit obl:unmarked | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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