Grimms' Fairy Tales, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief, sentence 94

Lina saw this and said, ‘Listen, old Sanna, why are you fetching so much water?’

Who acts: Lina, you · What happens: see, say, listen, fetch · To what, where: this, old Sanna, much water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, 3. How Partlet Died and Was Buried, and How Chanticleer Died of Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lina, 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	Lina	Lina	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 saw	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Listen	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 Listen	punct
8	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Sanna	punct
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Sanna	amod
11	Sanna	Sanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Listen	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fetching	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 fetching	advmod
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fetching	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 fetching	nsubj
16	fetching	fetch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 Listen	advcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 water	amod
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fetching	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 Listen	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 Listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past	Lina	this	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Lina not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	listen	infinitive		old Sanna	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	fetch	present · progressive	you	much water	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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: «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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