Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 27
‘Mother,’ said the boy, ‘how dreadful you look!
Who acts: Mother, you · What happens: say, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, you), 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 | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dreadful | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 dreadful | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 dreadful | advmod |
| 11 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 look | nsubj |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dreadful | ccomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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