Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 14

She touched it with her finger, and said: ‘Ah! how good fowls are!

Who acts: Gretel · What happens: touch, say · To what, where: smelt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gretel), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 finger	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 finger	nmod:poss
6	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Ah	punct
12	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 said	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Ah	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fowls	amod
16	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Ah	obj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Ah	cop
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	Gretel	smelt				with Gretel's finger	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with finger=Instrument
2	say speech: assert	past	Gretel not said here						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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