Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 37

The miser cried out, ‘Oh, no! no! for heaven’s sake don’t listen to him! don’t listen to him!’

Who acts: miser · What happens: cry out, not listen · To what, where: other

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miser), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 miser	det
2	miser	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 cried	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 listen	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 listen	punct
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	19 listen	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 Oh	discourse
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
11	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 Oh	discourse
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 sake	case
14	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sake	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 heaven	case
16	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Oh	obl
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 listen	aux
18	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 listen	advmod
19	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cried	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 listen	obl
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 listen	punct
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 listen	aux
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 listen	advmod
25	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 listen	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 listen	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 listen	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	the miser		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not listen	present · do-support	the miser not said here	other	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
3	not listen	infinitive · do-support		other	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme

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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