Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 15

But the old woman called after her, ‘What are you afraid of, dear child?

Who acts: old woman · What happens: call, be · To what, where: old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 afraid	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 afraid	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 woman	acl
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 afraid	obj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	cop
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	nsubj
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 child	case
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 of	punct
16	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 child	amod
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 afraid	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the old woman not said here			after woman		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the old woman					of dear child; afraid property	tree rules

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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