Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 49
‘You little urchin!’ they said, ‘what can you do for us?’
Who acts: You, eyes · What happens: urchin, say, do · 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 (You, eyes), 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 urchin | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 urchin | nsubj |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 urchin | amod |
| 4 | urchin | urchin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 urchin | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 urchin | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | urchin | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | eyes = eye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | can | you | for us | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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