Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 38
‘What dangerous walking it is,’ said he, ‘in this ploughed field!
Who acts: Tom · What happens: walk, say, plough · To what, where: place · 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 (Tom), 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 | _ | 3 dangerous | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 dangerous | nsubj |
| 3 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 dangerous | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walking | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 walking | aux |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dangerous | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dangerous | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 field | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 field | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 field | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 field | det |
| 15 | ploughed | plough | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 field | amod |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present · progressive | Tom not said here | place | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | plough | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent 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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