Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, sentence 7

While this was passing, a duck came quacking up and cried out, ‘You thieving vagabonds, what business have you in my grounds?

Who acts: this, duck, You · What happens: pass, come, quack up, cry out, thieve, have · To what, where: vagabonds, grounds

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 1. How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, duck, You), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 passing	mark
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 passing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passing	aux
4	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 passing	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 duck	det
7	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	quacking	quack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 quacking	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 cried	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thieving	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 thieving	punct
16	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 thieving	nsubj
17	thieving	thieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 cried	advcl
18	vagabonds	vagabond	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thieving	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 business	punct
20	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	21 business	det
21	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 vagabonds	conj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thieving	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 grounds	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 grounds	nmod:poss
26	grounds	grounds	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 have	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pass	past · progressive	this			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a duck			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	quack up	gerund	a duck not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry out speech: express	past	a duck not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	thieve	gerund	You	vagabonds and what business		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vagabond=Theme
6	have	present	you		my grounds	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «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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