Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 74

‘Bird,’ he said, ‘how beautifully you sing!’

Who acts: father, you · What happens: say, sing · 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, 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 Bird	punct
2	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bird	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bird	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 sing	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 beautifully	advmod
10	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	12 sing	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sing	nsubj
12	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 sing	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sing speech: express	present	you					beautifully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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