Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 25

‘You silly creature!’ said the eldest, ‘it is nothing but a nail in the wall.’

Who acts: You, silly creature, creature · What happens: creature, say, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, silly creature, creature), 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	_	4 creature	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 creature	nsubj
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eldest	det
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nothing	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 nothing	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 nothing	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 nothing	cop
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 said	ccomp
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 nail	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 nail	det
17	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nothing	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 wall	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wall	det
20	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nail	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 nothing	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	creature		You		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	silly creature		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	creature	nothing	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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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