Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 47
‘Ah, see now,’ said she, ‘how they have bruised and wounded those poor trees; they will never get well.’
Who acts: wife, wheels · What happens: see, say, bruise, wound, not get · To what, where: wheels, poor trees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, wheels), 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 | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bruised | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 bruised | punct |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 bruised | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bruised | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bruised | aux |
| 15 | bruised | bruise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wounded | cc |
| 17 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bruised | conj |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 trees | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trees | amod |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wounded | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 get | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 get | advmod |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 get | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bruise | present · perfect · passive | wheels = wheel | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | wound | participle | that poor trees | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tree=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not get | future | wheels = wheel | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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