Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 57
‘Fine clothes,’ said the first; ‘Pearls and diamonds,’ cried the second.
Who acts: Fine clothes, Pearls · What happens: say, cry · To what, where: first, second · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fine clothes, Pearls), 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 clothes | punct |
| 2 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clothes | amod |
| 3 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 clothes | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 clothes | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 first | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pearls | punct |
| 11 | Pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 diamonds | cc |
| 13 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Pearls | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pearls | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Pearls | punct |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 second | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 cried | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Fine clothes | the first | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Pearls and diamonds | the second | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent second=Topic |
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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