Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 39
"Father," answered the lad, "hear me!
Who acts: Father · What happens: answer, hear · To what, where: lad, Father · 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 (Father), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lad | det |
| 7 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hear | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hear | punct |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hear | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | Father | the lad | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | infinitive | Father not said here | Father | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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