Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 77

But the parson said, ‘Woman, thou art surely mad!’

Who acts: parson · What happens: say · To what, where: Woman · 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 (parson), 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	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parson	det
3	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Woman	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Woman	punct
7	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 art	punct
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	10 art	nsubj
10	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
11	surely	surely	ADV	_	12 mad	advmod
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 art	xcomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 mad	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the parson	Woman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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