Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 39
He called to him to stop, but the guest pretended not to hear.
Who acts: master, guest · What happens: call, stop, pretend, not hear · To what, where: two · 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 (master, guest), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stop | mark |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 called | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pretended | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 pretended | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guest | det |
| 10 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pretended | nsubj |
| 11 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 hear | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hear | mark |
| 14 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pretended | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | master | two | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | master not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pretend | past | the guest | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not hear | to-infinitive | the guest not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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