Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 92
You simpleton!" he exclaimed, "what are you shrieking for?
Who acts: You, King · What happens: simpleton, exclaim, shriek · 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 (You, King), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 simpleton | nsubj |
| 2 | simpleton | simpleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 simpleton | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 simpleton | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shrieking | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 shrieking | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 shrieking | obj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shrieking | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 shrieking | nsubj |
| 12 | shrieking | shriek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 exclaimed | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 shrieking | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | simpleton | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | King | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shriek | present · progressive | you | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |
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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