Grimms' Fairy Tales, Tom Thumb, sentence 99

‘Ah!’ said the father, ‘what fears we have had for you!’

Who acts: fears · What happens: say, have · To what, where: father · 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 (fears), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 had	obj
11	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	nsubj
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 had	aux
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 had	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the father					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic
2	have	present · perfect	fears					for you	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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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