Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 98

‘You must be dreaming,’ said the other, ‘I am not knocking you.’

Who acts: You, other, I · What happens: dream, say, not knock · To what, where: you · 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 (You, other, 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 dreaming	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 dreaming	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 dreaming	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 dreaming	aux
5	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dreaming	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 dreaming	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knocking	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 knocking	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 knocking	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 knocking	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 knocking	advmod
16	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 knocking	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 knocking	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 knocking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	dream	must · progressive	You		vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not knock	present · progressive	I	you	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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