Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 25

‘Ah, father,’ said Hansel, ‘I am looking at my little white cat, which is sitting up on the roof, and wants to say goodbye to me.’

Who acts: father, I, little white cat · What happens: say, look, sit up, want · To what, where: roof, goodbye, me · 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 (father, I, little white cat), 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 father	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 looking	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 looking	aux
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	18 cat	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cat	nmod:poss
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cat	amod
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cat	amod
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sitting	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sitting	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	aux
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 cat	acl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 sitting	compound:prt
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 roof	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 roof	det
26	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wants	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wants	cc
29	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 say	mark
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wants	xcomp
32	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 say	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 wants	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 wants	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look	present · progressive	I				at my little white cat	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cat=Theme
3	sit up	present · progressive	my little white cat			the roof		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
4	want	present	father not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here	goodbye	me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic to i=Recipient

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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