Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 26

The wife said: ‘Fool, that is not your little cat, that is the morning sun which is shining on the chimneys.’

Who acts: wife, that, morning sun · What happens: say, not be, be, shine · To what, where: little cat, morning sun, chimneys · 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 (wife, that, morning sun), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Fool	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Fool	punct
6	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cat	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 cat	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cat	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cat	advmod
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cat	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cat	amod
13	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Fool	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sun	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 sun	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sun	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sun	det
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sun	compound
19	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Fool	conj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 shining	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 shining	aux
22	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sun	acl:relcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 chimneys	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chimneys	det
25	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shining	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 sun	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Fool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	present	that	your little cat		tree rules
3	is a	present	that	the morning sun		tree rules
4	shine	present · progressive	the morning sun		the chimneys	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chimney=Location

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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