Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 42

‘What is the matter with you, my man?’ said the butcher, as he helped him up.

Who acts: matter · What happens: be, say, help up · To what, where: matter, butcher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hans in Luck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter), 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	_	5 matter	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 matter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 matter	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 man	nmod:poss
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matter	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 butcher	det
15	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 helped	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 helped	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 helped	nsubj
19	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 helped	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 helped	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the matter		with you	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the matter	the butcher			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent butcher=Topic
3	help up	past	matter		butcher		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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