Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 76
"Cease your silly talk," said the wagoner. "
Who acts: wagoner, your · What happens: cease, say, talk · To what, where: silly talk · 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 (wagoner, your), 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 Cease | punct |
| 2 | Cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 talk | nmod:poss |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 talk | amod |
| 5 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cease | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cease | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cease | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wagoner | det |
| 10 | wagoner | wagoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease in a quote | infinitive | your silly talk | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality talk=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wagoner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | your | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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