Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 47
‘What has he gone there for, and he never even said goodbye to me!’
Who acts: father · What happens: go, not say · To what, where: goodbye, me · 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 (father), 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 gone | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 gone | obj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gone | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 gone | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 said | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | conj |
| 14 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | father | there | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | participle | father | goodbye | me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
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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