Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 101
‘I am not pelting you,’ answered the first, growling.
Who acts: I · What happens: not pelt, answer, growl · To what, where: you, first · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 pelting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pelting | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pelting | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 pelting | advmod |
| 5 | pelting | pelt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pelting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pelting | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pelting | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 first | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 growling | punct |
| 13 | growling | growl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pelt | present · progressive | I | you | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the first | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | growl | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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