Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Old Man and His Grandson, sentence 5
The young wife scolded him, but he said nothing and only sighed.
Who acts: young wife, grandfather · What happens: scold, say, sigh · To what, where: grandfather, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Old Man and His Grandson. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young wife, grandfather), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scolded | nsubj |
| 4 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scolded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scolded | parataxis |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 said | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sighed | cc |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 sighed | advmod |
| 13 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past | the young wife | grandfather | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | grandfather | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sigh | past | grandfather not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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