Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 73
At last he cried out as loud as he could, ‘Don’t bring me any more hay!
Who acts: lack · What happens: cry out, not bring · To what, where: last, hay, me
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 (lack), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 cried | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 loud | advmod |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cried | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 could | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 loud | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 13 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 bring | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 bring | advmod |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | any | any | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 hay | advmod |
| 19 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | lack | last | loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | not bring | infinitive · do-support | lack not said here | hay | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination hay=Theme |
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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