Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 114

Holloa," he exclaimed; "only half a man answered that ringing; that is too little."

Who acts: noise, man, that · What happens: exclaim, answer, ring, be · To what, where: Holloa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, man, that), 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	Holloa	holloa	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exclaimed	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Holloa	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 exclaimed	nsubj
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 half	advmod
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 man	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 ringing	mark
14	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 answered	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 little	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 little	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 little	cop
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 little	advmod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 exclaimed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 little	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	noise	Holloa		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past	half man			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ring	gerund	half man not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	that		little property	tree rules

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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