Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 10
‘But I feel very sorry for the poor children, all the same,’ said the man.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: feel, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 feel | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sorry | advmod |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 children | amod |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sorry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 same | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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