Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hans in Luck, sentence 70
‘Good man,’ cried he, ‘pray get me out of this scrape.
Who acts: Good man · What happens: cry, pray, get · To what, where: me, scrape
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 (Good man), 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 | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 pray | punct |
| 10 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pray | xcomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 scrape | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 scrape | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 scrape | det |
| 16 | scrape | scrape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Good man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pray | infinitive | Good man not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | Good man not said here | me | this scrape | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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