Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 142
But the body got up and exclaimed, "Now I will strangle you." "
Who acts: body, man · What happens: get up, exclaim, strangle · To what, where: you · 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 (body, man), 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 | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 exclaimed | cc |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 strangle | punct |
| 10 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 strangle | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 strangle | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 strangle | aux |
| 13 | strangle | strangle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 strangle | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 strangle | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 strangle | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the body | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | participle | the body not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | strangle in a quote | future | man | you | now | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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