Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 100

‘What is the meaning of this?’ cried the other ‘Why are you pelting me?’

Who acts: meaning, you · What happens: be, cry, pelt · To what, where: meaning, other, me

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 meaning	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 meaning	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 meaning	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meaning	det
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 meaning	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 meaning	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 meaning	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cried	obj
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 pelting	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 pelting	advmod
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 pelting	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 pelting	nsubj
17	pelting	pelt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 pelting	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 pelting	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 pelting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the meaning		of this	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the meaning	the other			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Topic
3	pelt	present · progressive	you		me		vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination

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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