Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 12

Then the woodman laughed, and said, ‘How can that be? you cannot reach up to the horse’s bridle.’

Who acts: woodman, you · What happens: laugh, say, not reach up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodman, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 laughed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woodman	det
3	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 can	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 can	punct
10	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 can	advmod
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 be	nsubj
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 can	cop
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 reach	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reach	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 reach	advmod
18	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 reach	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 bridle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 horse	det
22	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bridle	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 horse	case
24	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reach	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the woodman	then		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the woodman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not reach up	can	you		to the horse's bridle	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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