Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 57
‘What a goose you are to do such silly things!’ said the husband.
Who acts: goose, husband · What happens: be, say · 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 (goose, husband), 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 | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 goose | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 goose | det |
| 4 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 10 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 husband | det |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | what goose | do property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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