Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 65

‘Alas! alas!’ said he, ‘what a clever wife I have!

Who acts: alas, I · What happens: say, have · To what, where: clever wife · 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 (alas, I), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	4 alas	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 alas	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 alas	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wife	det
13	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wife	amod
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 what	nsubj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wife	acl:relcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	alas						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	I	a clever wife not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient

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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