Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 69

‘Ah!’ said they, ‘what does the great warrior want here in the midst of peace?

Who acts: people · What happens: say, want · To what, where: midst · 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 (people), 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 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 want	nsubj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 warrior	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 warrior	amod
13	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	obj
14	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 want	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 midst	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 midst	det
18	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 want	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 peace	case
20	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 midst	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	people						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present				the midst of peace; here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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