Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 5

‘Oh,’ said the father, ‘she has plenty of good sense’; and the mother said: ‘Oh, she can see the wind coming up the street, and hear the flies coughing.’

Who acts: Clever, mother, wind, flies · What happens: say, have, see, come up, hear, cough · To what, where: father, plenty, wind, street, flies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clever, mother, wind, flies), 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 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
12	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sense	case
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sense	amod
15	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plenty	nmod
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mother	det
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	28 see	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Oh	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wind	det
30	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
31	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 wind	acl
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 coming	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 street	det
34	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 coming	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hear	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 hear	cc
37	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 see	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flies	det
39	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hear	obj
40	coughing	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 flies	acl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the father	tree rules
2	have	present	Clever	plenty of good sense	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	can	Clever	the wind	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wind=Stimulus
5	come up	gerund	the wind not said here	the street	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hear	infinitive	Clever not said here	the flies	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus
7	cough	gerund	the flies not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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