Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 31

Just listen how he is sharpening the knife for it!’

Who acts: you, master · What happens: listen, sharpen · To what, where: knife

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 (you, master), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 listen	advmod
2	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sharpening	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sharpening	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sharpening	aux
6	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 listen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knife	det
8	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sharpening	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sharpening	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 listen	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	sharpen	present · progressive	master	the knife				for knife	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=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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