Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 37

‘That’s a nice trick!’ said her master, and lamented the fine chickens.

Who acts: That, nice trick · What happens: be, say, lament · To what, where: nice trick, master, fine chickens · 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 (That, nice trick), 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	_	6 trick	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 trick	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trick	det
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trick	amod
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lamented	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lamented	cc
14	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chickens	det
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chickens	amod
17	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lamented	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a nice trick	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a nice trick	trick's master	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic
3	lament	past	a nice trick not said here	the fine chickens	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chicken=Stimulus

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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